I am speaking at PreEmptive’s event on Application Analytics in at Microsoft’s office in London on the 30th of September. There are various speakers from PreEmptive, Microsoft and Black Marble at this free event.

There are still spaces available, just follow the link: Application Analytics with Visual Studio and …

Whilst developing  a new Release Management pipeline I did hit a problem that a component that published MSDeploy packages to Azure started to fail.  It had been working then suddenly I started seeing ‘communication with the deployer was lost during deployment’ messages as shown below.

As part of our IT refresh we have decided to move this BlogEngine.NET server from a Hyper-V VM in our office to an Azure website.

BlogEngine.NET is now a gallery item for Azure website, so a few clicks and your should be up and running.

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Using the process in my previous post you can get a TFS build to create the .CSCFG and .CSPKG files needed to publish a Cloud Service. However, you hit a problem if your solution contains more that one Cloud Service project; as opposed to a single cloud service project with multiple roles, which is not a problem.

The …

I have been sorting out some builds for use with Release Management that include Azure Cloud Solutions. To get the correct packages built by TFS I have followed the process in my past blog post. The problem was I kept getting the build error

1The target "Azure PackagesBlackMarble.Win8AppBuilder.AzureApi" does …

 recently needed to deploy a Windows service as part of a Release Management pipeline. In the past, our internal systems I have only need to deploy DB (via SSDT Dacpacs) and Websites (via MSDeploy), so a new experience.

WIX Contents

The first step to to create an MSI installer for the service. This was done using WIX, …

I find I am spending more time with PowerShell these days, as we aim to automated more of our releases and specifically with DSC in PowerShell 4, as I am sure many of us are

Give that fact, the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 at the end of the month looks interesting. I only found out about it too late and I have diary …

I have been attempting to use the Git TF technique to migrate some content between TFS servers. I needed to move a folder structure that contains spaces in folder names from a TPC that also contains spaces in its name. So I thought my command line would be

1git tf clone “http://tfsserver1:8080/tfs/My Tpc” “$/My …

Just started seeing build error on a build that was working until we upgraded the build agent to TFS 2013.3

 1Exception Message: Stack empty. (type InvalidOperationException)  
 2Exception Stack Trace:    at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestImpact.Analysis.LanguageSignatureParser.NotifyEndType()  
 3   at …