Hit a strange problem today trying to do a simple Work Item update via the Azure DevOps REST API.

To do a WI update you need to call the REST API

• Using the verb PATCH
• With the Header “Content-Type” set to “application/json-patch+json”
• Include in the Body the current WI update revision (to make sure you are updating …

I have recently been getting a problem swapping between different organisations in Azure DevOps. It happens when I swap between Black Mable ones and customer ones, where each is back by different Azure Active Directory (AAD) but I am using the same credentials; because I am either a member of that AAD or a guest.

The …

I have recently be working on a release pipeline that deploys to a server behind a corporate firewall. This is done using an Azure DevOps private build agent and works fine.

As the service is a basic REST service and takes a bit of time to start-up I though a gate was a perfect way to pause the release pipeline until …

It always amazes me that people find time to write tech books whilst having a full time job. So given the effort I know it will have been, it is great to see an update to  Tarun Arora and Utkarsh Sigihalli's book 'Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook'.

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I recently hit a problem with builds triggered by branch policies in Azure DevOps Repos. With the help of Microsoft I found out the problem and I thought it worth writing up uncase others hit the issue.

Setup

Folders

Assume you have a Git repo with source for the UI, backend Services and common code in sub folders

/ …

I have been trying to use Regex to select a block of an XML based .NET Core CSPROJ file, and yes before you say know I could use XPATH, but why am not is another story.

I was trying to use the Regex

1content.match(/<PropertyGroup>((.|n)\*)</PropertyGroup>/gmi)

The strange thing was this selection string …

I have spent too long recently trying to sign a UWP .MSIXBUNDLE generated from an Azure DevOps build using the SignTool.exe and our code signing certificate. I kept getting the error

1Done Adding Additional Store  
2Error information: "Error: SignerSign() failed." (-2146958839/0x80080209)

From past experience, …

Introduction

I use Azure DevOps Pipelines for the build and release of my Azure DevOps Pipeline extensions, I previously detailed my process here .

For a good few months now YAML builds have been available. These provide the key advantage that the build is defined in a YAML text file that is stored with your product’s …

I have posted in the past a quick script to generate some markdown documentation for the YAML usage of Azure DevOps Pipeline extensions. Well I decided that having this script as a task itself would be a good idea, so a wrote it, and please to say have just release it to the marketplace

The YAML Documenter task scans …