I have recently hit a problem that some of my Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, that I use to build my Azure DevOps Pipeline Extensions, are not triggering on a new PR being created on GitHub.

I did not get to the bottom of why this is happening, but I found a fix.

• Check and of make a note of any UI declared variables in …

Background

GitHub is a great system for individuals and OSS communities for both public and private project. However, corporate customers commonly want more control over their system than the standard GitHub offering. It is for this reason GitHub offers  GitHub Enterprise.

For most corporates, the essential feature …

Problem

I recently tripped myself up whist adding SonarQube analysis to a rather complex Azure DevOps build.

The build has two VsTest steps, both were using the same folder for their test result files. When the first VsTest task ran it created the expected .TRX and .COVERAGE files and then published its results to …

I wrote recently about Creating Hyper-V hosted Azure DevOps Private Agents based on the same VM images as used by Microsoft for their Hosted Agent.

As discussed in that post, using this model you will recreate your build agent VMs on a regular basis, as opposed to patching them. When I came to do this recently I found …

I have recently been doing a TFS 2015 to Azure DevOps Server 2019.1 upgrade for a client. The first for a while, I have been working with Azure DevOps Service mostly of late. Anyway I saw an issue I had never seen before with any version of TFS, and I could find no information on the Internet.

The Problem

The error …

Hit a strange problem today trying to do a simple Work Item update via the Azure DevOps REST API.

To do a WI update you need to call the REST API

• Using the verb PATCH
• With the Header “Content-Type” set to “application/json-patch+json”
• Include in the Body the current WI update revision (to make sure you are updating …

I have recently been getting a problem swapping between different organisations in Azure DevOps. It happens when I swap between Black Mable ones and customer ones, where each is back by different Azure Active Directory (AAD) but I am using the same credentials; because I am either a member of that AAD or a guest.

The …

I recently hit a problem with builds triggered by branch policies in Azure DevOps Repos. With the help of Microsoft I found out the problem and I thought it worth writing up uncase others hit the issue.

Setup

Folders

Assume you have a Git repo with source for the UI, backend Services and common code in sub folders

/ …

I have been trying to use Regex to select a block of an XML based .NET Core CSPROJ file, and yes before you say know I could use XPATH, but why am not is another story.

I was trying to use the Regex

1content.match(/<PropertyGroup>((.|n)\*)</PropertyGroup>/gmi)

The strange thing was this selection string …

I have spent too long recently trying to sign a UWP .MSIXBUNDLE generated from an Azure DevOps build using the SignTool.exe and our code signing certificate. I kept getting the error

1Done Adding Additional Store  
2Error information: "Error: SignerSign() failed." (-2146958839/0x80080209)

From past experience, …