I have been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a while as I have been deep in planning for community events and steeped in the joys of HoloLens.

The results, two more DDD community events on the way (Reading and the North), and Black Marble has been made one of Microsoft’s HoloLens Agency Readiness Partners.  So few …

I have just released a new version of my VSTS Manifest Version Extension (1.5.22). This adds two new tasks to the set of versioning tasks in the extension. The complete set now is

• VersionAssemblies - sets the version in the assemblyinfo.cs or .vb (used pre build)
• VersionDotNetCoreAssemblies - sets the version in the …

Background

If you are creating VSTS build extensions you will need to get the build or release’s PAT token if you wish to call the VSTS REST API.

This is done using a call like this (Node)

1import tl = require('vsts-task-lib/task'); 
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3var auth = tl.getEndpointAuthorization('SYSTEMVSSCONNECTION', false …

Rik Hepworth and myself have been doing our ‘Living the Dream – Real world DevOps with VSTS and ARM’ at a good few events over the past few months.

We now, at last, have a recording of a version of it up on Black Marble YouTube Channel’s DevOps Playlist

Enjoy….

There are still spaces available at the Black Marble hosted venue for the Global DevOps Bootcamp on the 17th of June

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If you are interested register …

Do you find your TFS server gets forgotten?

• It is not owned by the IT department and the Development team don’t have the time to support it fully, it never gets patched or upgrades?
• Or maybe you are adopting a cloud first strategy for all you systems?

Well maybe it is time to consider moving your on-premises TFS …

Rik and myself had a great time fun last night chatting all things ALM and DevOps with Greg Duncan on RadioTFS show 136. I was amazed it was a year since I was last on.

The Podcast is now up at http://radiotfs.com/Show/136 , why not have a listen

My Generate Release Notes VSTS extension has been my most popular by a long way. I have enhanced it, with the help of others via pull requests, but there have been two repeating common questions that have not been resolved

1. Is it cross platform?
2. Why does it show different work items and commit associations to the VSTS …

I have been working on a new Node.JS based VSTS Build Extension, so loads of Node learning going on as it is a language I have not done much with in the past. I expect to get caught out in places, but I have just wasted a good few hours on this one!

I am working in VS Code using Typescript to generate my Node based …