Are you enthused by the all news at Build 2017? Do you want to find out more about VSTS, DevOps and Continuous Delivery? Well why not take the chance to join us on June 17th at Black Marble, or one of the over 25 other venues around the world for the first Global DevOps Bootcamp? The Global DevOps Bootcamp is a free …

I did an event yesterday on using the TFS Database Import Service to do migrations from on premises TFS to VSTS. During the presentation I discussed some of the other migration options available. Not everyone needs a high fidelity migration, bring everything over. Some teams may want to just bring over their current …

Several years ago, for the launch of Windows Phone 7, we built a game based on work we did on helping teaching AI with .NET. o7 was born. A great game, and now it is back in glorious UWP for Windows 10. Try it out and let us know what you think. Get it here. b

Once again I am so very proud to announce I have been selected to continue as a Regional Director for Microsoft for another two years. The Regional Directors are a truly extraordinary set of individuals and I am humbled every time I’m in their company. Not only for their extraordinary depth of knowledge and level of …

After last year’s successful reboot, DDD is back in Reading for its twelfth outing, on Saturday, 10th of June. Again DDD is free for all to attend, thanks to some great sponsors – and if you would like to be considered, please email ddd@blackmarble.com. Our aim is to make DDD accessible to all, making it free is key to …

Recently we had a great day demonstrating the great innovations we have made with HoloLens for the Police to a room full of jaded but ultimately enthusiastic, technology journalists. It was great to see their responses to the solutions we have put together, and heartening to read some of the things they had to say. …

I have been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a while as I have been deep in planning for community events and steeped in the joys of HoloLens. The results, two more DDD community events on the way (Reading and the North), and Black Marble has been made one of Microsoft’s HoloLens Agency Readiness Partners. So few …

This is one of those posts I do as a reminder to myself. I have struggled to get debugging working in VSCode for Typescript files. If I set breakpoints in the underlying generated JavaScript they worked, but did not work if they were set in the Typescript source file. There are loads of walkthroughs and answers on …

I have just released a new version of my VSTS Manifest Version Extension (1.5.22). This adds two new tasks to the set of versioning tasks in the extension. The complete set now is VersionAssemblies - sets the version in the assemblyinfo.cs or .vb (used pre build) VersionDotNetCoreAssemblies - sets the version in the …

Background If you are creating VSTS build extensions you will need to get the build or release’s PAT token if you wish to call the VSTS REST API. This is done using a call like this (Node) 1import tl = require('vsts-task-lib/task'); 2 3var auth = tl.getEndpointAuthorization('SYSTEMVSSCONNECTION', false); 4 5if …