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Added Manual Test Plan support to my Azure DevOps Cross-Platform Release notes Task
Richard Fennell Mar 3, 2021 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps ·
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I have just release 3.46.4 of my Azure DevOps Cross-Platform release Notes task which adds support for generating release notes based on the results of Azure DevOps Test Plans.
There has been support in the task for automated tests, run as part of the build or release process, for a while. However, until this release, …

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Fixing my SQLite Error 5: 'database is locked' error in Entity Framework
Richard Fennell Feb 12, 2021 · 1 min read · Tech Tips ·
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I have spent too long today trying to track down an intermittent “SQLite Error 5: 'database is locked'” error in .Net Core Entity Framework.
I have read plenty of documentation and even tried swapping to use SQL Server, as opposed to SQLite, but this just resulted in the error ‘There is already an open DataReader …

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What to do when moving your Azure DevOps organisation from one region to another is delayed.
Richard Fennell Jan 25, 2021 · 2 min read · Tech Tips ·
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There are good reasons why you might wish to move an existing Azure DevOps organisation from one region to another. The most common ones are probably:
- A new Azure DevOps region has become available since you created your organisation that is a 'better home' for your projects.
- New or changing national regulations …
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Porting my Release Notes Azure DevOps Pipelines Extension to GitHub Actions
Richard Fennell Dec 31, 2020 · 2 min read · GitHub GitHub ·
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One of my most popular Azure DevOps Extensions is my Release Notes Pipeline task. This allows the creation of release notes using information obtained from the Azure DevOps API and formatted using a Handlebars Template.
Given the popularity of GitHub Actions, I got to wondering whether porting this extension was …

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Business Process Automation and Integration in the Cloud
Robert Hogg Dec 30, 2020 · 1 min read · BPA Business Process Automation Integration Uncategorised ·
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Organisations are facing increased, and unprecedented, pressure from the market to transform digitally, and as a result, they need to think how they can become more attractive in their specific market space. The most common area to concentrate on is becoming more efficient, and this can be thought of in discrete parts: …
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My DDD2020 Session - How can I automatically create Azure DevOps Release Notes and how can I publish them
Richard Fennell Dec 21, 2020 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Really please to say that my DDD2020 session is now available to stream.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xaV3dFoQdV8
Thanks to the organisers and sponsors that allowed this event to ahead this year in this difficult year.

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Running UWP Unit Tests as part of an Azure DevOps Pipeline
Richard Fennell Dec 8, 2020 · 2 min read · Tech Tips ·
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I was reminded recently of the hoops you have to jump through to run UWP unit tests within an Azure DevOps automated build.
The key steps you need to remember are as follows
Desktop Interaction
The build agent should not be running as a service it must be able to interact with the desktop.
If you did not set this mode …

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Out of Memory running SonarQube Analysis on a large projects
Richard Fennell Dec 1, 2020 · 1 min read · Sonarqube Tech Tips ·
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Whilst adding SonarQube analysis to a large project I started getting memory errors during the analysis phase. The solution was to up the memory available to the SonarQube Scanner on the my build agent, not the memory on the SonarQube server as I had first thought. This is done with an environment variable as per the …
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Sponsoring DDD 2020
Robert Hogg Dec 1, 2020 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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A few weeks back, I wrote about how we aren't asking for sponsors for our online Developer Day, as there aren't any significant costs to cover. Instead, we were directing people towards making a donation to The National Museum of Computing, an organisation which does great things for our industry, but has been finding …
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Getting confused over Azure DevOps Pipeline variable evaluation
Richard Fennell Nov 27, 2020 · 3 min read · Tech Tips VSTS ·
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Introduction
The use of variables is important in Azure DevOps pipelines, especially when using YML templates. They allow a single pipeline to be used for multiple branches/configurations etc.
The most common form of variables you see is are the predefined built in variables e.g. $(Build.BuildNumber) and your own …

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Introduction