git Launch WSL bash prompt from Tower When you launch a terminal from Tower, it launches an included MingW bash shell. Now that Windows 10 ships with the Windows Subsystem for Linux it would be nice to use that bash
Visual Studio 2017 Use Visual Studio 2017 as merge tool in Tower I recently started using Tower as my Git client in Windows, it's great in many aspects, but it doesn't ship with any Diff/Merge capabilities. It relies on 3rd party tool to supply
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.
Team Foundation Server NDepend 6 offers native integration into TFS 2013 When Patrick Smacchia contacted me a couple of weeks back to look at his new TFS support for NDepend I was very excited. We've integrated NDepend through commandline calls with numerous clients and
TFS 2013 Configure Git for Visual Studio to use a proxy server Unlike most features of Visual Studio, the Git tools do not (always) automatically pick up the Widows proxy settings, being dependent on a number of open source libraries which don't seem to be
XAML Build Building a .NET application using the GitUpgradeTemplate.xaml Today I received a request which I first found strange. A team that migrated to Git, but still wanted to use their TFS 2008 era TFSBuild.proj. After seeing the investment made in
Azure DevOps Codelens features and Visual Studio versions [Updated for 2013.3ctp1] Update: Visual Studio 2013.3 CTP 1 Adds support for Git repositories! If you're as happy with the new CodeLens features in Visual Studio 2013 ultimate as I am, you've probably found out
Azure DevOps Use Git commandline directly from Visual Studio Update: Instead of using the Package Management Console, you can now use The Whack Whack Console, ConEmu Integration or BuiltinCmd for a better interactive console. These can be combined with PoshGit as well.
Azure DevOps Microsoft provides full Git support for Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Service Today Microsoft publicly introduced the first Community Preview version of the Git tools for Visual Studio and the Team Foundation Service at the ALM Summit. Microsoft is fully committed to supporting this open
Team Foundation Server Why I like TFS :) As a response to Joe Ferner's post on why he dislikes TFS. I'll first touch upon the items brought forward by Joe. Some of them are just true, and I won't put too
