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 …

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 …

The Intel Edison unit is great for building IOT, people have been asking where to get the bits and for more general information

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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

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This is the list of recomended books on IOT I shared in my session

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Enterprise IOT O'Reilly …

I had a great time at NDC 2016. It was a very well organised event, everybody enjoyed the event, content and the food.

Huge thanks to the great and efficient organisation by the NDC team.

Also thanks to the great people with clearly great taste who attended my talk.

I am separating the post into a few areas so I can …