I like web deploy as a means to package up websites for deployment. I like the way I only need to add 1/p:DeployOnBuild=True;PublishProfile=Release as an MSBuild argument to get the package produced as part of an automated build. This opening up loads of deployment options I recently hit an issue packaging up a …

A couple of months ago I wrote a post on using PowerShell scripts to deploy web sites in Release Management vNext templates as opposed to DSC. In that post I provided a script to help with the translation of Release Management configuration variables to entries in the [MSDELPOY].setparameters.xml file for web sites. …

Dux is the chief technology officer for AvePoint public sector and he spoke to me about how with cloud technologies it’s now more possible to focus on the customers to make sure their needs are solved Dux was also very keen to speak about what encouraged him to get into the industry particularly a love for James Bond! …

Shantel runs social media for the worldwide partner group and was kind enough to spare the time to talk to me about how more women could be helped into technology. Shantel spoke to Niamh next and was telling us how she got into the industry. Particularly how growing up around Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond played …

Taylor is the senior marketing manager at Perficient where she works to bring Microsoft closer to their brand. She very kindly took the time to talk to me about how she thinks that women are integral to technology. Taylor also spoke to Niamh about how she got into technology with some interesting origins regarding …

I have just had a guest post published on the Microsoft UK developers site nUnit and Jasmine.JS unit tests in TFS/VSO vNext build

We were very excited to be given the opportunity to speak on stage at the UK Regional Keynote at WPC. We were interviewed by Liam Kelly, Head of DX at Microsoft UK, about how we got into programming, what we are up to now and where we are heading. We had amazing fun and enjoyed being able to go backstage to see how it …

DDDNorth is on again this year, back in it’s more northern base of the Sunderland University on the 24th of October You can submit your session proposal in here

Background We upgraded our production TFS 2013.4 server to TFS 2015 RTM this week. As opposed to an in-place upgrade we chose to make a few change on the way; so whilst leaving our DBs on our SQL 2012 cluster We moved to a new VM for our AT (to upgrade from Windows 2008R2 to 2012R2) Split the SSRS instance off the AT …

In my last post I discussed how you could wire TCM tests into a Release Management vNext pipeline. The problem with the script I provided, as I noted, was that the deployment was triggered synchronously by the build i.e. the build/release process was: TFS Build Gets the source Compiled the code Run the unit tests …