That’s rather annoying message that I kept getting today while trying to install an MSI into a VM.  A quick Bing search showed a few people with this issue, most stating that you need to run the msi from the command line using MSIEXEC to work around...

VSDB provides a number of configuration properties that can be used during deployment. These options are found in the Database.sqldeployment file that is included in your database project: These options can also be specified on the command line...

After a discussion about ReSharper with yet another colleague the other day, I decided that it was finally time I installed the trial and gave it a go.  After all, it's only on version 4 already :) I've un-installed it after only a day or so, I won...

While investigating ways to control parameterised web servers in Visual Studio web tests yesterday I found out that you can use environment variables to set the values of context parameters within your test. If you have a context parameter called, for...

Ok, so it's not exactly an original title for a first post on a technical blog, but I felt it had to be done... You can find out a little about me and what I do here . My aim for this blog is to provide useful technical information based on the work...