The Hinshelwood Family Portrait
For my wife’s birthday my brother and his wife bought us a professional photo shoot, and the photographer got some fantastic shots . I love the one of my daughter jumping. We have had a couple of go’s at this before, but we have always been disappointed in both the photographer and the results.
Developer Day Scotland
The Developer Developer Developer event held at Glasgow Caledonian University (my University) yesterday was excellent. Kudos to Colin Angus Mackay and the other organisers for all of the effort they have put in once again.
Windows 7 RC
The Windows 7 Release Candidate will be available next week for Developers on MSDN . It is currently up on Connect for Windows 7 Beta Program participants and should be publically available from the 5th May . You can find out more at the Windows Team Blog .
Fail a build if tests fail
It took me longer than I thought it would to find this, but is you are using TFS2008 and you want builds to fail if any of the tests fail then you can add the following to the tests properties group in your build project (TFSBuild.prof)
Get Analysis Services last processed date
I need a little bit of code to get the last processed date for the cube that my site connects to: Public Function GetCubeLastProcessedDates(ByVal AnalysisServer As String) As Collection(Of CubeInfo) Dim result As Collection(Of CubeInfo) Dim identity As WindowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() Dim eCode As Integer = CommonUtility.RevertToSelf() Dim oServer As New Server Try result = New Collection(Of CubeInfo) oServer.Connect(String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "data Source = {0};", AnalysisServer)) For Each d As Database In oServer.Databases For Each c As Cube In d.Cubes result.Add(New CubeInfo(d.Name, c.Name, c.LastProcessed)) Next Next oServer.Disconnect() Catch e As ConnectionException ' Do some error handling Catch e As AdomdErrorResponseException ' Do some error handling Catch e As AdomdConnectionException ' Do some error handling Catch e As Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AmoException ' Do some error handling Catch e As Exception Throw Finally oServer.Dispose() identity.Impersonate() End Try '------------------------------ Return result End Function The only problem I have with this is that while it takes no longer than 5 seconds to return a negative result, it can take as much as 30 seconds to return when in the positive (i.e. you can access the cube).
Data Dude R2 is out!
Coming hot on the heals of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR is the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 which features some new bits and better support for SQL 2008.
I hope you did not pay for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2007
Coz its now free… Head over to the Microsoft Download site and get your copy: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42 Well, no more problems trying to persuade the business to buy it for users :)
Sharepoint 2007 and Silverlight
I have looked at this topic before but I just got my hands on a new Wrox book called “ Professional Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 Development using Microsoft Silverlight 2 ”, phew, could that title be any longer!
Visual Studio Team Test Quick Reference Guide 1.0
If you are in any way involved in or thinking bout Testing code, Websites or Web Services then you should have a look at the VSTT Quick Reference Guide 1.0 which the Visual Studio Team System Rangers team has published on CodePlex .
McDDD
Its that time again and you should all be in Glasgow on the 2nd May for Developer Day Scotland 2 . There are some excellent speakers, some we saw last time and some new.
