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A vNext build task to get artifacts from a different TFS server
Richard Fennell Feb 18, 2016 · 3 min read · Uncategorised ·
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With the advent of TFS 2015.2 RC (and the associated VSTS release) we have seen the short term removal of the ‘External TFS Build’ option for the Release Management artifacts source. This causes me a bit of a problem as I wanted to try out the new on premises vNext based Release Management features on 2015.2, but don’t …
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Running a SaaS service at scale
Richard Fennell Feb 12, 2016 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Brian Harry has done a couple of very interesting posts (post 1 and post 2) on the recent outages of the VSTS service. Whether you use VSTS or not they make interesting reading for anyone who is involved in running SaaS based systems, or anything at scale.
From the posts the obvious reading is you cannot under estimate …

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Repost: What I learnt extending my VSTS Release Process to on-premises Lab Management Network Isolated Environments
Richard Fennell Feb 12, 2016 · 9 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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 …

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Release Manager 2015 stalls at the ‘uploading components’ step and error log shows XML load errors
Richard Fennell Feb 11, 2016 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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 …

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vNext Build editor filePath control always returns a path even if you did not set a value
Richard Fennell Feb 8, 2016 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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 …
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A VSTS vNext build task to run StyleCop
Richard Fennell Feb 6, 2016 · 2 min read · DevOps VSTS ·
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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 …
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A new vNext task to run StyleCop
Richard Fennell Feb 4, 2016 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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 …

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Follow up from my session at the Black Marble Tech Update 2016
Richard Fennell Feb 2, 2016 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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 …

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NDC London 2016 (Post 5 Raspberry PI, Fez Cream and Windows 10)
Robert Hogg Jan 18, 2016 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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 …
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NDC London 2016 (Post 4 Intel Edison )
Robert Hogg Jan 18, 2016 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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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