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New release of my Generate Parameters.xml tools to add support for app.config files
Richard Fennell Feb 13, 2018 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps Release Management Release Management ·
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I recently released an updated version of my Generate Parameters.XML tool for Visual Studio. This release adds support for generating parameters.xml files from app.config files as well as web.config files Why you might ask why add support for app.config files when the parameters.xml model is only part of WebDeploy? …
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Smarter Cities Summit
Robert Hogg Feb 5, 2018 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I am delighted to be joining SixPivot, our amazing Australian partner, in taking part in the Safer Cities Summit in Brisbane this week. We are launching tuServ, our award-winning policing solution at the event, into the Australian market, as the first step to taken it global!
I'll be joined by Faith Rees, SixPivot's …

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Versioning your ARM templates within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline with Semantic Versioning
Richard Fennell Feb 3, 2018 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps Tech Tips VSTS VSTS ·
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I wrote a post recently Versioning your ARM templates within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline. I realised since writing it that it does not address the issue of if you wish to version your ARM Templates using Semantic Versioning. My JSON versioning task I used did not support the option of not extracting a numeric version number …
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What I wish I had known when I started developing Lability DevTest Lab Environments
Richard Fennell Jan 31, 2018 · 3 min read · DevTest Labs DevTest Labs DSC DSC Powershell Powershell ·
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At Black Marble we have been migrating our DevTest labs to from on-premises TFS Lab Management to a mixture of on-premise and Azure hosted Lability defined Labs as discussed by Rik Hepworth on his blog. I have only been tangentially involved in this effort until recently, consuming the labs but not creating the …
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DDD (South) is back again
Robert Hogg Jan 29, 2018 · 1 min read · DDD Uncategorised ·
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After last year’s successful DDD, it will be in Reading for its thirteenth outing, on …

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Versioning your ARM templates within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline
Richard Fennell Jan 22, 2018 · 1 min read · Azure Azure DevOps DevOps ·
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Updated 3 Feb 2018 - Also see Versioning your ARM templates within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline with Semantic Versioning Azure Resource Templates (ARM) allow your DevOps infrastructure deployments to be treated as ‘content as code’. So infrastructure definitions can be stored in source control. As with any code it is really …
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Creating test data for my Generate Release Notes Extension for use in CI/CD process
Richard Fennell Jan 19, 2018 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps Git Git Powershell Powershell Release Management Release Management Tech Tips VSTS VSTS ·
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As part of the continued improvement to my CI/CD process I needed to provide a means so that whenever I test my Generate Release Notes Task, within it’s CI/CD process, new commits and work item associations are made. This is required because the task only picks up new commits and work items since the last successful …
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How I fixed my problem that my VSTS Build Extension was too big to upload to the Marketplace
Richard Fennell Jan 5, 2018 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps Tech Tips VSTS VSTS ·
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Whist adding a couple of new tasks to my VSTS Manifest Versioning Extension I hit the problem that VSIX package became too big to upload to the Marketplace. The error I saw in my CI/CD VSTS pipeline was``` ##vso[task.logissue type=error;]error: Failed Request: Bad Request(400) - The extension package size '23255292 …
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Added a new JSON version task to my VSTS Version Extension
Richard Fennell Jan 5, 2018 · 1 min read · DevOps DevOps VSTS VSTS ·
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In response to requests on the VSTS Marketplace I have added a pair of tasks to added/edit entries in a .JSON format files.
The first is for adding a version to a file like a package.json file e.g.
1{ 2"name": "myapp", 3"version": "1.0.0", 4"license": "MIT" 5}
The …

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Announcing a new VSTS Extension for Starting and Stopping Azure DevTest Labs VMs
Richard Fennell Nov 30, 2017 · 4 min read · DevTest Labs DevTest Labs Release Management Release Management Tech Tips VSTS VSTS ·
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I have recently been posting on using Azure to host private VSTS build/release agents to avoid agent queue deadlocking issues with more complex release pipelines. One of the areas discussed is reducing cost of running a private agent in Azure by only running the private agent within a limited time range, …

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