I have been sorting out some builds for use with Release Management that include Azure Cloud Solutions. To get the correct packages built by TFS I have followed the process in my past blog post. The problem was I kept getting the build error 1The target "Azure PackagesBlackMarble.Win8AppBuilder.AzureApi" does …

recently needed to deploy a Windows service as part of a Release Management pipeline. In the past, our internal systems I have only need to deploy DB (via SSDT Dacpacs) and Websites (via MSDeploy), so a new experience. WIX Contents The first step to to create an MSI installer for the service. This was done using WIX, …

I find I am spending more time with PowerShell these days, as we aim to automated more of our releases and specifically with DSC in PowerShell 4, as I am sure many of us are Give that fact, the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 at the end of the month looks interesting. I only found out about it too late and I have diary …

I had been suffering with the 0x80188308 error when I tried to update my Nokia 820 to the WP81 Update 1 because I had the developer preview installed. I had been putting off what appeared to be the only solution of doing a reset as discussed in the forums as it seem a bit drastic, thought I would wait for Microsoft to …

I have been attempting to use the Git TF technique to migrate some content between TFS servers. I needed to move a folder structure that contains spaces in folder names from a TPC that also contains spaces in its name. So I thought my command line would be 1git tf clone “http://tfsserver1:8080/tfs/My Tpc” “$/My …

Just started seeing build error on a build that was working until we upgraded the build agent to TFS 2013.3 1Exception Message: Stack empty. (type InvalidOperationException) 2Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestImpact.Analysis.LanguageSignatureParser.NotifyEndType() 3 at …

This morning DDDNorth’s agenda was published, registration opened and it was full. All within a couple of hours. Looks like a good event if you managed to get a ticket. Glad I can get in as a speaker, else this mornings meetings would have left me on the waiting list

My DDDNorth session "What is Desired State Configuration and how does it help me?" has been accepted, looking forward to it

Update 24 Aug 2014: Changed the PowerShell to use a pipe based filter as opposed to nested foreach loops The TFS Scrum process template’s Product Backlog Item work item type has an acceptance criteria field. It is good practice to make sure any PBI has this field completed; however it is not always possible to enter …

I have just had an article published on the Microsoft’s UK Developers site Migrating a TFS TFVC based team project to a Git team project - a practical example