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…]
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…]
I was trying to run a simple DSC where I create an app pool so I downloaded the xWebAdministration module, dumped it into C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules directory, set up my configuration, ran it and got this error: Importing module MSFT_xWebAppPool failed with error – File C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\xWebAdministration\DscResources\MSFT_xWebAppPool\MSFT_xWebAppPool.psm1 cannot be loaded because you opted not to run … [Read more…]
After downloading TFS 2015 RC, I wanted to create a simple build of my web app. The goal was to have a v.next build do the same thing as my xaml build. I wanted the build to get the latest code from source control, compile everything, run unit tests, then drop the build artifacts in … [Read more…]
I have a standard demo that I created to demo the capabilities of Release Management using TFS 2013 update 4 and Release Management (using the workflow deployment). It’s a solution which contains a web app and a database project. TFS builds the solution (both web and database) and then RM picks up the bits from … [Read more…]