Managing database schema changes has always been challenging. Keeping track of what scripts to run in what order and getting database states just right in all the different environments is painful and error prone. However, there are some fantastic tools from Redgate which help us manage our database changes as well as creating a fully … [Read more…]
Have you ever wished you could write mobile apps? Well, if you are a C# developer, you literally are a mobile app developer using Xamarin. With Xamarin, you are able to use C# to write native applications for iOS, android, windows, mac, tizen etc. However, like any new technology, the hard part is starting out … [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…]
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…]