As a TSP in DX at Microsoft, I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. … [Read more…]
Setting up a DevOps demo using VSTS and Azure (Or DevOps Nirvana with VSTS and Azure), Part 4/5
As a TSP in DX at Microsoft, I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. … [Read more…]
Setting up a DevOps demo using VSTS and Azure (Or DevOps Nirvana with VSTS and Azure), Part 3/5
As a TSP in DX at Microsoft, I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. … [Read more…]
Setting up a DevOps demo using VSTS and Azure (Or DevOps Nirvana with VSTS and Azure), Part 2/5
As a TSP in DX at Microsoft, I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. … [Read more…]
Setting up a DevOps demo using VSTS and Azure (Or DevOps Nirvana with VSTS and Azure), Part 1/5
As a TSP in DX at Microsoft, I am constantly asked to talk about DevOps and what DevOps means for Microsoft. Although there are many definitions of DevOps floating out in our industry, at Microsoft, DevOps is the merging of people, process and products such that we can continually deliver value to our end users. … [Read more…]
VSTS Extensions–Getting the latest pull request on a file
In the current VSTS extension that I am writing (Surface Owner of File Extension), one of the things I needed to do was given a file path in a git repo, I needed to display who was the last person to perform a code review/pull request on that file. After combing through the VSTS REST … [Read more…]
My VSTS Tasks–Config Tokenizer, Swap Web Slot, Dacpac Deploy
Some people have been asking for the source code to some of the VSTS agent tasks that I use in my demos. I posted them to github (https://github.com/abelsquidhead/VSTSTasks). In the repo are the power shell VSTS agent tasks that I use in my demos: ConfigTokenizer – Assuming there is a .token file right next to … [Read more…]
Deploying a database via dacpac from a VSO build by creating a custom build/release task
While using the new scriptable build system in VSO, there have been countless times I wanted to create my own custom build/release task. That day has finally arrived. The ability to upload custom build and release tasks to VSO has now been made public by Microsoft. It is still in the “pre-release” stage so you … [Read more…]
I’m using Release Management with PowerShell scripts to deploy my app and it’s corrupting my configuration files
So I’m using RM with powershell scripts to deploy a simple web app. One of my scripts was modifying the Web.config file with Out-File. Everything seemed to be working just fine except after the deployment, I got a 500 server error. The Web.config file looked perfectly fine, but after some excruciating analysis, I finally figured out … [Read more…]
Using Microsoft Fakes, how do you fake a method with generics? (Mocking UpdateModel() )
Using MSTest and Fakes as my mocking framework, I was writing unit tests against an MVC controller and I needed to mock Controller.UpdateModel<TModel>(TModel). How do you do that? How do you fake out methods with generics? In my example, in my controller action, I’m pulling a Series object from my repository and I want UpdateModel() … [Read more…]