Anything code related
I needed to make some updates to http://LoECDA.com. This is an asp.net core app, using EFCore running inside of a docker container hosted in Azure. Cool! All things I’ve been meaning to really dig my teeth into but just haven’t quite gotten around to it. The first problem I ran into was trying to enable … [Read more…]
A customer asked me if it was possible to build and deploy SSIS packages using VSTS. Without thinking, I answered, “Of course you can (I had no clue if you could or not but Any Language, Any Platform right?)! And Premier Developers (they had a Premier contract with Microsoft) can tell you exactly how to … [Read more…]
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. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
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. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
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. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
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. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
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. And clearly, VSTS/TFS and Azure are the … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]