The League was recently contacted by @samsmithnz who wanted some more real world examples on setting up a CI/CD pipeline into IaaS, IIS and SQL. Damian (@damovisa) asked me if I would be interested in recording a video about this when he swings through Redmond next week. Sure! Piece of cake! I have plenty of … [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…]
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 was recently at a client where they had an azure cloud service project in a Git repository in Visual Studio Online (VSO). They asked me if they could use Team Build (TFS build) to build the solution and then have the build kick off a Release Management release template which would deploy the Azure … [Read more…]
In TFS, I sometimes need to write a WorkItemChanged event handler. No biggy, plenty of examples on how to do that. But what’s hard to find is what dll is the class Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server.WorkItemChangedEvent in? In TFS 2008 it was in Microsoft.teamfoundation.WorkitemTracing.Server.WorkItemChangedEvent. In TFS 2010 it is in Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkitemTracking.server.DataAccessLayer.Dll.
Last blog, I talked about a simple branching strategy. Today, I’ll tackle a slightly more complex scenario. A while ago, I ran into a client (small group) that already released a version of their application into the field. Things were running smoothly for a couple of weeks, developers were busy working in the DEV branch … [Read more…]
In my last 3 engagements, I’ve been asked to help my clients with creating a branching and merging plan using code promotion for release management. Since I’m not at a client site today, I figured it was a good time to actually put down my thoughts on branching and merging strategies. First off, before I … [Read more…]
Hi there, My name is Abel and I’m a process consultant for Notion Solutions. What I do is write software. And I’m VERY good at it. What I do for fun is music. And guess what? Yup, I’m also VERY good at that! Hahaha. Kidding Anyway, I’ve been thinking about starting up a blog for … [Read more…]