Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Pipelines

VSTS Build & Release to Azure DevOps Pipelines tasks

Out with the old, in with the new! With the rename of Visual Studio Team Services Build and Release Management to Azure DevOps Pipelines all of the underlying libraries are being renamed too.

Azure DevOps

Tasks and Release Gates on RadioTFS

In this episode of RadioTFS we spoke about the Global DevOps Bootcamp, Azure Pipelines and more specifically Release Gates and setting up a pipeline for your own Azure DevOps Extensions and some other recent blog posts.

Azure DevOps

Pipeline extension scoped to a specific TFS or Agent version

In The Netherlands more and more cities are creating an artificial wall around the city centers for older cars, certain fuel types or lorries. This is happening elsewhere in Europe as well. A

Azure DevOps

Fail your builds when tests are skipped in Azure DevOps Pipelines

When the Visual Studio Test Task in Azure DevOps Pipelines fails to find any tests it logs a warning and happily succeeds. It has been a regular request on the MVP community to

Azure DevOps

What domains are used by your Azure DevOps account?

Almost every corporate client asks us this question at some point: Which domains and IP addresses are used by Azure DevOps (formerly Visual Studio Team Services). And given that it's a cloud service,

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Extension Tasks 1.1.75

I'm happy to announce that version 1.1.75 of the Azure DevOps Extension Tasks is rolling out to the Visual Studio Marketplace. The last few releases have added a couple of significant features that I'd like to quickly highlight in this post.

Quality Code

Hard lessons in asynchronous JavaScript code

Last Friday I received a bug report for one of the extension I maintain. It took a while to first reproduce the case and then to figure out what was happening exactly. I found that my assumption about the execution order didn't match reality and that I was fighting a race condition.

Ghost

Continuous Delivery of customized Ghost themes using VSTS

In order to migrate my Ghost blog I needed to customize the default theme to support some of the features I'm relying on: - Disqus comments - Google Analytics - Integrating Google+ comments. To be able to quickly integrate updates I'm maintaining a fork of the Casper theme with my changes.

DevOps

Global DevOps Bootcamp 2018 recap

Today was the day of the Global DevOps Bootcamp. And it was a blast. Last evening Central European Time the first teams started their learning journey towards DevOps in New Zealand and Australia

Azure DevOps

Connect any version of Visual Studio to Azure DevOps or Team Foundation Server

Visual Studio has been around for a long time and there are still people developing in Visual Basic 6 or Visual Studio 2008. Even if you're using a more recent IDE, you could need one or more hotfixes and/or service packs.

DevOps

Xpirit awarded Microsoft Global DevOps Partner of the year 2018

Wow! Just wow! Three and a half years ago our company didn't even exist yet. When I joined about 3 years ago our office was a small room on the 2nd floor with

Azure DevOps

Crafting complex Release Gate conditions in VSTS

A recent addition to VSTS is the ability to run a quick check prior to triggering a release to an environment. These checks can be used to check that there are no new customer complaints, no important jobs running in the environment etc. This post explains how to build your own.

Azure

Disambiguate MSA and AAD accounts

Microsoft is finally closing the loophole that allowed you to create an MSA account (LiveId) with the same unique name as your AAD (Azure Active Directory) account. While it has been very useful

Azure DevOps

New versions of TFS/VSTS build tasks

I just pushed out new versions of the following tasks: MsBuild Helper Task Fixed a number of bugs when the Agent's work folder has a space in it somewhere. Snyk Fixed auto-update of

Team Foundation Server

Clean up your Team Project Collection prior to migrating to VSTS

To prepare your TFS Project Collection for migration, you may want to remove (stale) old data to reduce the database size first. Most actions are already documented here. Queries that can aid in

Azure DevOps

Make a Group Team Administrator in VSTS/TFS

In case your organisation is depending on an Identity and Access Management tool to assign rights to the tools in the toolchain, then it's likely that all of your permissions are handled through

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Extending your Build and Release pipeline

The new build and release engine that ships with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server 2015 (The Release Management bits shipped with TFS 2015 update 2) provides a whole new way

Azure DevOps

A quick peek into Team Foundation Server 15 Preview

Gian Maria Ricci already covered a nice overview of what's new in the install experience of TFS 15 in the latest Preview Release. Let's walk through the new features in the product... though

Azure DevOps

Publish your VSTS extension using Team Build and Release Management

While I've released my VSTS Extension Tasks to GitHub and the Visual Studio Marketplace some time ago, I was reminded that I've never really blogged about it yet. You may wonder what it

Azure DevOps

Publish your extension to a local TFS Update 2 server

With the availability of extensions for TFS I've been looking for an easy way to publish extensions and their updates to the local marketplace. While I'm sure that Microsoft will at some point

Azure DevOps

Automatically populate your Source branch when publishing to Sonar

When you enable your build definition to trigger on multiple branches, you may not want them all to publish into the same Sonar project. Sonar has the concept of Branches, they're simply appended

Azure DevOps

Define a custom Authentication Scheme for your VSTS extension

The standard Authentication Schemed in VSTS include Basic (username/password), Token, Service Credential (for Azure) and AzureCertificate Authentication. If you simply need a username password or a Personal Access token you can derive

Azure DevOps

Reference specific line of a file in the Code hub

One of the features of GitHub I use quite often is the ability to right-click any line number to create a link to that specific file on the exact line. It can eb

Azure DevOps

Access all available build variables from your VSTS Build task

NOTE: This cmdlet works with the Powershell host that shipped with TFS 2015 RTM and which will be replaced with a new task runner. Whether this functionality will remain, is uncertain. If you

Scrum

Scaling Scrum Professionally using Nexus and Visual Studio Team Services

If you have been using Scrum to develop products, you have probably found that the Scrum Guide only describes the core rules of Scrum, regardless of scale. A lot of companies want to use Scrum to work on multiple products or to develop a comprehensive product that requires multiple teams.