Whilst doing some NPM build work for VSTS Extensions I kept getting intermittent EPERM errors about renaming Windows files during NPM install (as discussed on GitHub)l. When you get this it completely blocks any development.

As the Github issue discusses there are many possible reasons for this issue, and many proposed …

I have working on getting a Windows 10 Universal application analysed with SonarQube 6.x as part of a VSTS build. The problem has been that when the VSTS task to complete the SonarQube analysis ran I kept getting an error in the form

1WARNING: Duplicate project GUID: "8ace107e-8e3c-4a1b-9920-e76eb1db5e53". …

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?

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'); 
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3var auth = tl.getEndpointAuthorization('SYSTEMVSSCONNECTION', false …

Rik Hepworth and myself have been doing our ‘Living the Dream – Real world DevOps with VSTS and ARM’ at a good few events over the past few months.

We now, at last, have a recording of a version of it up on Black Marble YouTube Channel’s DevOps Playlist

Enjoy….

There are still spaces available at the Black Marble hosted venue for the Global DevOps Bootcamp on the 17th of June

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