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Testing your CosmosDB apps locally without actually using Azure

July 7, 2019 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


I think you’ll find this implementation of CosmosDB Server for testing your applications locally quite interesting. We will going through the following steps: Download node Make an empty package.json file Install cosmosdb-server using npm Create an app.js file Install cosmos dependency using npm Start your cosmosdb-server Make sure in your TestClass TestInitialize method to ignore […]

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Azure, CosmosDB, Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio
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Delete your resource groups in parallel using the az group command

July 7, 2019 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Donovan Brown posted a How to on this earlier this year, I wanted to see if it was possible to do it using the az group command.  This is what I finally came up with. I downloaded and installed the latest PowerShell Core for Windows from GitHub releases.  I picked the latest preview V7.0.0-preview.1 release […]

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Azure
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DevOps with Dynamics 365 using VSTS

July 29, 2018 by Wes MacDonald 13 Comments


I have put together a combination of scripts, tools and extensions to get the Dynamics “solution” under version control as well as incorporate continous integration (CI) and continous deployment (CD) using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Hopefully this post is helpful to others who wish to sprinkle some DevOps on their Dynamics 365 development, if […]

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Dynamics 365, Visual Studio Team Services
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Visual Studio Web Application Debugging using SSL with Chrome Error

March 27, 2018 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If you are trying to debug your website using Visual Studio 2017 and Chrome with an HTTPS link you might encounter an error in Chrome because of the new security restrictions. I was asked by someone for help to fix an error message being displayed in Chrome ERR_SPDY_INADEQUATE_TRANSPORT_SECURITY on their Windows 10 (1607) desktop. If […]

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Visual Studio, Windows 10
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Continuous Delivery of your NuGet Packages with VSTS – SemVer

March 18, 2018 by Wes MacDonald 19 Comments


This post is a continuation of my first post on the topic of NuGet packages.  This post, however, will focus on using Semantic Versioning of your NuGet packages.  The previous post published a NuGet package and used the Package Management Views in VSTS to demonstrate the quality of the package as it moved through the […]

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Team Foundation Server, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Team Services
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Continuous Delivery of your NuGet Packages with VSTS

January 21, 2018 by Wes MacDonald 13 Comments


This post will show one approach you can use for your NuGet with VSTS, I shall show you how you can use the release views in a NuGet Package feed to communicate package quality.  Versioning NuGet packages in a Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) environment has been a topic of discussion and even resulted in […]

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Release Management, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team Services

Running the Ubuntu VSTS Agent on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

September 3, 2017 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


I was playing with the new ASP.NET Core Template in Visual Studio 2017 and I thought it would be interesting to spin up a Linux Agent right on my Windows 10 Pro installation. UPDATE:  September 5th, 2017 – Upgrade Git Client to 2.14.1 from 2.7.4 Turn Windows Features On or Off You need to enable […]

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Ubuntu, Visual Studio Team Services, Windows 10

TFS 2017 Update 2 RC2 and work item type icons

July 21, 2017 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Hello, Thanks for visiting.  If you have installed Update 2 RC1 or RC2 for TFS 2017 you may have noticed that all of your work item icons are different colored clip boards with a checkmark.  It doesn’t have to be this way 🙂   If you would like to use the new icons that are […]

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Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services
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The first Global DevOps Bootcamp !

May 11, 2017 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Originally posted on The Road to ALM:
Maybe some of you are familiar with Global Azure Bootcamp. This yearly global event is hosted by many communities throughout the world and is a great success. As a fanatic DevOps adept, I wanted to do something similar but around DevOps. And…I am proud to present that on…

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TFS 2017 On-Premises and Git over SSL

April 17, 2017 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


If your TFS server is using a certificate from an Active Directory based Certificate Server and you decide to use Git for version control choice you will quickly find out the certificate will not be trusted by Visual Studio or Git.exe when you attempt to Clone a Repository.  Those Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) users have it […]

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Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio
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