Tracking the current version of StyleCop is a bit awkward. Last week I got an automated email from CodePlex saying 4.7.52.0 had been released . I thought this was the most up to date version, so upgraded my StyleCop command line wrapper and my VSTS StyleCop task from 4.7.47.0 to 4.7.52.0.
However, I was wrong about the …
Read More- Whilst working with the new Release Management features in VSTS/TFS 2015.2 I found I needed to pass in configuration variables i.e. server name, Db name, UID and Password to create a SQL server via an Azure Resource Management Template release step and a connection string to the same SQL instance for a web site’s …
Read More The new NAT virtual switch that can be created on Windows 10 for Hyper-V virtual machines is a wonderful thing if you're an on-the-go evangelist like myself. For more information on how to create one, see Thomas Maurer's post on the subject.
This post is not about creating a new NAT switch. It is, however, about …
Read MoreThere is no easy way to work out how long a TFS in place upgrade will take, there are just too many factors to make any calculation reasonable
- Start and end TFS version
- Quality/Speed of hardware
- Volume of source code
- Volume of work items
- Volume of work item attachments
- The list goes on….
The best option I have found …
Read MoreIn the past I have posted about the vNext TFS build tasks I have made available via my GitHub repo. Over the past few weeks I have been making an effort to repackage these as extensions in the new VSTS/TFS Marketplace, thus making them easier to consume in VSTS or using the new extensions support in TFS 2015.2
This it …
Read MoreDid you know TFS was 10 years old this week? I have been working with TFS all that time, doesn’t time fly, and wow has the product changed from TFS 2005 to 2015/VSTS or what.
If you want to find out a bit more about the past 10 years try listening to the latest Radio TFS podcast with Brian Harry
Read MoreThis is a post so I don’t forget how I fixed access to one of our environments yesterday, and hopefully it will be useful to some of you.
We have a good many pretty complex environments deployed to our lab hyper-V servers, controlled by Lab manager. Operations such as starting, stopping or repairing those environments …
Read More- I came across Net Writer some months ago, when it's creator, Ed Anderson blogged about how he'd taken the newly-released Open Live Writer code and used it in his just-started Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for Windows 10. In January it only supported blogger accounts, which meant that I was unable to use it. …
Read More It has been a while since I have mentioned any had new books on TFS/VSTS, and just like buses a couple come along together.
These two, one from Tarun Arora and the other from Mathias Olausson and Jakob Ehn are both nicely on trend for the big area of interest for many of the companies I am working with at present; best …
Read MoreUpdated 22 Mar 2016: This task is now available as an extension in the VSTS marketplace
A common request I get from clients is how can I create a custom set of release notes for a build? The standard TFS build report often includes the information required (work items and changesets/commits associate with the build) …
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