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  • And another new feature for my Cross Platform Release Notes Azure DevOps Task - commit/changeset file details

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 20, 2020 · 1 min read · VSTS VSTS  ·
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    The addition of Handlebars based templating for my Cross Platform Release Notes Task has certainly made it much easier to release new features. The legacy templating model it seem is what had been holding development back.

    In the past month or so I have added support for generating release notes based on PRs and Tests. …


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  • Another feature for my Cross Platform Release Notes Azure DevOps Extension–access to test results

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 18, 2020 · 2 min read · DevOps DevOps VSTS VSTS  ·
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    Over the weekend I got another new feature for my Cross Platform Release Notes Azure DevOps Extension working. The test results associated with build artefacts or releases are now exposed to Handlebars based templates.

    The new objects you can access are:

    • In builds

    • tests – all the test run as part of current build …


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  • Announcing the deprecation of my Azure DevOps Pester Extension as it has been migrated to the Pester Project and republished under a new ID

    author Richard Fennell calendar May 3, 2020 · 3 min read · pester DevOps VSTS  ·
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    Back in early 2016 I wrote an Azure DevOps Extension to wrapper Pester, the Powershell unit testing tool. Over the years I updated it, and then passed the support of it over to someone who knows much more about Powershell and Pester than I Chris Gardner who continued to develop it.

    With the advent of cross-platform …


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  • Fix for ‘System.BadImageFormatException’ when running x64 based tests inside a Azure DevOps Release

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 23, 2020 · 1 min read · Tech Tips Testing Testing VSTS VSTS  ·
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    This is one of those blog posts I write to remind my future self how I fixed a problem.

    The Problem

    I have a release that installs VSTest and runs some integration tests that target .NET 4.6 x64. All these tests worked fine in Visual Studio. However, I got the following errors for all tests when they were run in a …


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  • I decided to create a video of my blog post on Multistage YAML pipelines

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 22, 2020 · 1 min read · VSTS VSTS  ·
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    I decided to create a video of my blog post ‘Swapping my Azure DevOps Pipeline Extensions release process to use Multistage YAML pipelines’.

    [iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WMQ0G9eXczE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" …


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  • And more enriching the data available in my Azure DevOps Pipelines Cross Platform Release Notes Task

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 21, 2020 · 2 min read · VSTS VSTS  ·
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    I have today released another enrichment to the dataset available in my Cross Platform Release Notes Azure Pipeline Task. It now returns an extra array of data that links work items and commits to build artifacts.

    So your reporting objects are:

    Array Objects

    • workItems – the array of all work item associated with the …


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  • Further enriching the data available in my Azure DevOps Pipelines Cross Platform Release Notes Task

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 15, 2020 · 2 min read · VSTS VSTS  ·
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    I recently post about Enriching the data available in my Azure DevOps Pipelines Cross Platform Release Notes Task by adding Pull Request information. Well, that first release was fairly limited only working for PR validation builds, so I have made more improvements and shipped a newer version.

    The task now will, as …


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  • Swapping my Azure DevOps Pipeline Extensions release process to use Multistage YAML pipelines

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 7, 2020 · 6 min read · Tech Tips VSTS VSTS  ·
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    In the past I have documented the build and release process I use for my Azure DevOps Pipeline Extensions and also detailed how I have started to move the build phases to YAML.

    Well now I consider that multistage YAML pipelines are mature enough to allow me to do my whole release pipeline in YAML, hence this post. …


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  • My Azure DevOps Pipeline is not triggering on a GitHub Pull request - fixed

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 7, 2020 · 1 min read · Tech Tips VSTS VSTS  ·
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    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 …

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  • Enriching the data available in my Azure DevOps Pipelines Cross Platform Release Notes Task

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 4, 2020 · 3 min read · VSTS VSTS  ·
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    A common request for my Generate Release Notes Tasks is to enrich the data available beyond basic build, work item and commit/changeset details. I have resisted these requests as it felt like a never ending journey to start. However, I have now relented and added the option to see any pull request information …
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