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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Recently one of our bigger projects which has a Windows 8.1 client has just been migrated to Windows 10 UWP. The application is quite big and is rapidly changing every week. When it comes to testing we need to make sure that all of the old functionality is still working as expected. To do this we run a set of nightly …

Overall I must say that I found this to be one of the best Build's yet. The keynotes had people cheering and applauding almost none stop, the content in the sessions was exemplary and the expo hall and was fun to spend time in with lots of interesting stands to talk to people on. My only regret is that I didn't have as …

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 …

Prior to Windows 10 UWP the recommendation for federated authentication in Windows was (and still is) to use ADAL.net. If you have a Windows 10 UWP application you have a new platform capability available to you called the WebAccountManager. This is the recommended approach going forward from Windows 10. The Windows 10 …

This year it was hoped that since there would be no hardware giveaways that the number of giveaways around and about the conference would go up as well. Well we weren't disappointed. The number of competitions to win freebies was high with surface books and phones on offer. Hour competitions were run on twitter by …