The process that suites your team best might be different from what might be best for someone else. In this blog post, I would like to share how you can construct release notes with Azure DevOps in a nice ordered … Read More
I think that one of the strengths of the build and release system in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is the large variety of tasks that is available. If you ever want a task that does something that the default … Read More
Regarding migrations, I have previous experience with migrating on premise Team Foundation Servers (TFS) to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Those times I used tools such as the OpsHub Visual Studio Migration Utility for copying work items and Git TFS … Read More
All too often I find myself in projects where there is no efficient strategy around updating databases. Databases should be able to be migrated to the latest version without too much effort. If it’s too hard, developers will start sharing … Read More
A question that I get fairly often is how to automatically stop virtual machines in Azure so that they get deallocated and practically does not cost anything. There are many ways to do this, and in this blog post, I … Read More
For some time now, Community TFS Build Extensions has provided a PowerShell script for automatic versioning of assemblies during a build. This simple script served me well, until I heard about semantic versioning… To make a long story short, semantic … Read More
Git is a source control version system that encourages you to commit changes often. Since you have your own local repository it is not that important that everything that is committed is of premium quality. You can always amend, squach, … Read More
If you work with an open source project, or by other means want to share your project with unknown people, GitHub is a great place to store source code. It does not provide any support for building, versioning or deployment, … Read More
Have you ever felt the need to have a test environment set up on your personal computer? Or perhaps to have an automated way to set up an environment in your Continuous Integration workflow? If it’s done manually, this is … Read More
Your reality as a programmer if often that the application that you and your team are writing is going to be run on a number of test- and production environments. The normal case is that these contain computers with different … Read More