Background

I am finding  myself writing a lot of PowerShell at present, mostly for VSTS build extensions. Here I hit a problem (or is it an opportunity for choice?) as to what development environment to use?

• PowerShell ISE is the ‘best’ experience for debugging a script, but has no source control integration – and it …

This is a copy of the guest post done on the Microsoft UK web site published on the 7th June 2016

This is a revised version of a post originally published in August 2014. In this revision I have updated version numbers and links for tools used and added a discussion of adapting the process to support VSTS.

The code for …

Microsoft asked my to revise my August 2014 article on ‘Migrating a TFS TFVC team project to a Git team project’, this revised version is now live on their web site.

The changes in the revision are updated links for tools, and information on how to use the technique with VSTS now some work item customisation is …

Background

Most projects will have a range of tests

• Unit tests (maybe using a mocking framework) running inside the build process
• Integration/UX and load tests run as part of a release pipeline
• and finally manual tests

In a recent project we were using WebTests to provide some integration tests (in addition to …

• Struggling to manage those DevTest VM in Azure?
• Finding it hard to standardise your VMs and get the right things installed?
• Burning through your Azure credit too fast because you forgot to switch things off?

Well Azure DevTest Labs has just been released for general availability, might will just be the thing to help, …

I am pleased to announce that I have just made public on the VSTS marketplace a new version of my VSTS Generate Release Notes extension.

This new version now supports both VSTS/TFS vNext Builds and vNext Releases. The previous versions only supported the generation of release notes as part of a build.

The adding of …

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 …

I 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 …