This a a repost of a guest article first posted on the Microsoft UK Developers Blog: How to extend a VSTS release process to on-premises Note that since I write the original post there have been some changes on VSTS and the release to TFS 2015.2 RC1. These mean there is no longer an option to pull build artifacts from …

Whilst seting up a Release Management 2015.1 server we came across a strange problem. The installation appears to go OK. We were able to install the server and from the client created a simple vNext release pipeline and run it. However, the release stalled on the ‘Upload Components’ step. Looking in event log of the VM …

You can use the filePath type in a vNext VSTS/TFS task as shown below 1{ 2 "name": "settingsFile", 3 "type": "filePath", 4 "label": "Settings File", 5 "defaultValue": "", 6 "required": false, 7 "helpMarkDown": "Path to single settings …

Updated 22 Mar 2016 This tasks is available in the VSTS Marketplace I have previously posted on how a PowerShell script can be used to run StyleCop as part of vNext VSTS/TFS build. Now I have more experience with vNext tasks it seemed a good time to convert this PowerShell script into a true task that can deploy …

Update 6 Feb 2016 - I have made some major changes to this task to expose more parameters, have a look at this post that details the newer version Today a good way to pull together all your measures of code quality is to run SonarQube within your automated build; in a .NET world this can show changes in quality over …

There have been some requests for more information about the areas I convered in my presentation at the Black Marble Tech Update 2016 that we held last week. I could send out slides, but I think it is far more useful to point you at the ‘live’ resource on the Internet. The key reason for this is that the whole of the …

One of the things I showed at NDC was a Raspberry Pi 2 with a FEZ Cream Hat (I know that sounds just so wrong, but that is its name). The FEZ Cream offers Gadgeteer ports out of the Pi, which is just awesome. What this means in reality is you get objects to program against not ports and lines which is mush easier; for …

The Intel Edison unit is great for building IOT, people have been asking where to get the bits and for more general information http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html I would suggest getting the Arduino kit to get started with. I enjoy the Xadow(below) much more but I struggled to get the …

I strongly recomend you watch a great security talk on IOT by Clemens Vasters and Dan Rosanova https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/2-625 NDC London 2016 Talks (Videos not up yet, will update as soon as they are ready) Barry Dorrans + Troy Hunt b.

This is the list of recomended books on IOT I shared in my session Enterprise IOT O'Reilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039433.do Abusing the Internet of Things O'Reilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033547.do I will update this as I find and approve of new books b.