Azure DevOps Connect any version of Visual Studio to Azure DevOps or Azure DevOps 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 Install Team Foundation Server Power Tools side-by-side You might be connecting to multiple versions of TFS and use multiple versions of Visual Studio. Which Power tools work with which?
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 built-in Snyk version Added support for Path parameter to scan NuGet packages among other package types. Added
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 detecting where your space is allocated are also found in this recent support ticket. Delete old workspaces
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 of configuring your Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline. A much improved and simplified way. You may have
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 does. The VSTS Extension Tasks are a set of tasks for Team Build and Release Management to
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 to the Project Key with a -. This prevents an old Hotfix build from messing up the
Azure DevOps Access all available build variables from your VSTS Build task This StackOverflow answer covers the options in the Node and PowerShell3 handlers. 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 want to know which variables
TFS 2015 Configure SSL for SonarQube on Windows The documentation for SonarQube explains how to configure SSL when you're running on Linux and how to use the native Tomcat functionality for a simple test environment, yet they recommend not to use this functionality in any production like setting. Instead SonarQube recommends the use of a Reverse Proxy to
TFS 2015 Publish Build Tasks to TFS 2015 without configuring Basic Auth on the server When you want to publish build tasks to a TFS 2015 server, you need a Basic Authentication enabled endpoint. Unless your server is configured with SSL, this is a major security concern. Until now the guidance I received was to setup a second Application Tier, configure it with Basic Auth
Azure DevOps Building multiple configurations and/or platforms in Build 2015 In XAML builds you could specify one or more configurations to build, if you left these values empty, the solution default would be built. Unless you were using a customized build template, each build|configuration pair would be built and tested in sequence. The Build Agent will create a sub-folder
Azure DevOps Upgrading from XAML to Build 2015 with minimal changes This series is currently a work in progress XAML builds on Visual Studio Team Services will be deprecated in September 2016. While support for XAML builds seems to stay around on-premise for a little while longer, it's time to upgrade to Build 2015. You may have invested quite a bit
Azure DevOps Access multiple TFVC repositories in a Build 2015 definition When you have a TFS project collection with many Team Projects, it's a common practice to have a "shared" project containing a collection of commonly used libraries. This library may consist of Checkin policies, Build Activities, MsBuild tasks and Custom MsBuild targets. The alternative used to be to
Azure DevOps Add additional fields to "Edit Test Case using Grid" option in VS Team Services If you're bulk-creating, importing or editing test cases in Visual Studio Team Services, you're probably aware of the "Edit as Grid" option, which opens your test case in a spreadsheet like layout for bulk editing: Not many people know that you can extend this grid easily to bulk-edit
Azure DevOps Debug your TFS/VSO 2015 builds The new build engine of Visual Studio Online and TFS 2015 is great. It's simple, easy to configure and doesn't require complex workflow designers. But when it's not doing exactly what you want it to do, it can be hard to figure out where it's going wrong. There is a
Azure DevOps Enable parallel execution of tests using the Visual Studio Test Runner 2015.1 Does your machine have multiple CPU's or cores? Are your tests truly independent and thread safe? In that case you'll be able to speed up your test runs considerably by enabling multi-threaded support to the Visual Studio Test Runner. This works in both Visual Studio as on your build server.
TFVC Checkin Policy Ask a developer for confirmation in a TFS checkin policy A TFS checkin policy can normally only be dismissed by overriding the policy. There is no way to selectively allow a user to override one, but not another policy. And there is no way to interact with the user from the Check-in dialog using custom UI other than the message,
