I recently posted on how we were versioning our Nuget packages as part of a release pipeline. In test we noticed that the packages being produced by this process has an extra folder inside them.

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Background

We are currently packaging up a set of UX libraries as NuGet packages to go on our internal NuGet server. The assemblies that make up the core of this framework are all in a single Visual Studio solution, however it makes sense to distribute them as a set of NuGet packages as you might not need all the parts …

Do you have repeating blocks in your VSTS release pipelines?

I certainly do. A common one is to run a set of functional test, so I need to repeatedly …

1. Deploy some test files to a VM
2. Deploy a test agent to the VM – IMPORTANT I had not realised you can only run one test run against this deployed agent. You need to …

I have just released 1.4.7 of the release notes VSTS extension. This provides a new advanced options that allows you to switch the authentication model.

The default remains the same i.e. use a personal access token provided by the server, but you have the option to enable use of the 'defaultcredentials' (via the …

I have been using the Microsoft Band (both version Band1 and Band2) since they came out, and been reasonably happy. However, a year or so on my issues with it have remained the same

• Poor battery life, I can live with charging it each day, but even with GPS Power-saver mode on I can’t go for any exercise over about 4 …

The RadioTFS show that I was the guest on has just been published at http://radiotfs.com/Show/117.

If you don’t listen to RadioTFS why not?  It is a regular podcast (as you can see with over 100 episodes) on all things TFS and VSTS. A great way to keep up what is new in the technology space.

Links to this and all my …

Just published a new VSTS extension with a couple of tasks in it. The aim to to help formalise the end of a release process. The tasks

• Allow you to set the retension ‘keep forever’ flag on a build (or all builds linked to a release)
• Update increment a build variable e.g. all or part of a version number, in a build (or …

I have been using Visual Studio Code for PowerShell development, but got a bit behind on reading release notes. Today I just realised I can make my Integrated Terminal a Code a PowerShell instance.

In File > Preferences > user Settings (settings.json) enter the following

1// Place your settings in this file to …

I recently posted on my development process for VSTS Extensions, it has been specifically PowerShell based build ones I have been working on. During this development I have come across a few more gotcha’s that I think are worth mentioning

32/64 bit

The VSTS build agent launches PowerShell 64bit (as does the PowerShell …