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  • Running WebTests as part of a VSTS VNext Release pipeline

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 30, 2016 · 4 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    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 …


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  • Easier management of DevTest VMs with Azure DevTest Labs

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 27, 2016 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    • 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, …


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  • Building bridges - getting DevOps working through Devs and IT Pros talking and learning from each other

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 25, 2016 · 2 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    I was lucky enough to attended and be on a panel at yesterdays WinOps London conference, it was a different and very interesting view on DevOps for me. I spend most of my time consulting with test and development teams, with these teams it is very rare to come across a team not using source control and they commonly …
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  • Migrating work items to VSTS with custom fields using TFS Integration Platform

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 20, 2016 · 5 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    If you wish to migrate work items from TFS to VSTS your options are limited. You can of course just pull over work items, without history, using Excel. If you have no work item customisation them OpsHub is an option, but if you have work item customisation then you are going to have to use TFS Integration Platform. And …
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  • New version of my VSTS Generate Release Notes extension - now supports Builds and Release

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 19, 2016 · 2 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    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 …


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  • Putting a release process around my VSTS extension development

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 6, 2016 · 4 min read · Release Management Tech Tips VSTS  ·
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    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 …


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  • Upgrading BlogEngine to 3.3

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 1, 2016 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    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 …


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  • Updates to my StyleCop task for VSTS/TFS 2015.2

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 26, 2016 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    Tracking the current version of StyleCop is a bit awkward. Last week I got an automated email from CodePlex saying 4.7.52.0 had been released . I thought this was the most up to date version, so upgraded my StyleCop command line wrapper and my VSTS StyleCop task from 4.7.47.0 to 4.7.52.0.

    However, I was wrong about the …


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  • How to build a connection string from other parameters within MSDeploy packages to avoid repeating yourself in Release Management variables

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 18, 2016 · 6 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    Whilst working with the new Release Management features in VSTS/TFS 2015.2 I found I needed to pass in configuration variables i.e. server name, Db name, UID and Password to create a SQL server via an Azure Resource Management Template release step and a connection string to the same SQL instance for a web site’s …
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  • In place upgrade times from TFS 2013 to 2015

    author Richard Fennell calendar Mar 29, 2016 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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    There is no easy way to work out how long a TFS in place upgrade will take, there are just too many factors to make any calculation reasonable

    • Start and end TFS version
    • Quality/Speed of hardware
    • Volume of source code
    • Volume of work items
    • Volume of work item attachments
    • The list goes on….

    The best option I have found …


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