Visual Studio 2015

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?

Visual Studio 2015

Solve basic auth proxy issues with Nuget, Visual Studio and Xamarin (hack)

When you're using Visual Studio behind a Basic Authenticaton proxy, you may run into issues restoring Nuget packages. While I've never found a real solution for the issue, and trust me I've tried quite a few workarounds like the ones listed here. You'll get

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

Azure DevOps

Manipulating your TFVC repository from Build 2015

Though generally considered a bad practice I crafted two build tasks to manipulate your TFVC repository from the build. You can now edit, delete and add files and check those changes in when you're ready. Before I explain how they work and how you

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

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

Roslyn

C# Interpolated Strings in older .NET frameworks

When targeting a .NET 4.0 or 4.5 project it's not possible by default to use the Interpolated Strings and their FormattableString and IFormattable counterparts. By default*.*** But, this is only because these two types didn't ship with the older version of the

Static Analysis

C# 6 Interpolated Strings and Code Analysis (CA1305)

C# 6 introduces a new concept, Interpolated Strings, sort of the compiler version of String.Format. It's a great way to ensure that the compiler checks that your variables actually exist and that you're passing the right number of 'm. And as with String.

Visual Studio 2015

Turn off Visual Basic 14 language features in Visual Studio 2015

If you're on a team that's doing solution round-tripping between Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, then it's usually a good idea to turn off the latest Language features. That way you don't break the 2013 users, yet are able to use all the other

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. Not many people seem to know this, but the Visual Studio