Updated: 5th Aug 2016 added notes in PublisherID
I have been developing a few VSTS/TFS build related extensions and have published a few in the VSTS marketplace. This has all been a somewhat manual process, a mixture of Gulp and PowerShell has helped a bit, but I decided it was time to try to do a more formal …
Read MoreI have just completed the upgrade of our Blog Server to BlogEngine 3.3. This upgrade is a bit more complex than the usual upgrade as between 3.2 to 3.3 there is a change to Razor views for all the widgets. This means you need to remove all the old widgets you have and re-add them using the new razor equivalents.
As our …
Read MoreTracking 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. …
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