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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Continuous Delivery of your NuGet Packages with VSTS
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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TFS 2017 Update 2 RC2 and work item type icons
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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TFS 2017 On-Premises and Git over SSL
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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Versioning your database packages (.dacpac) with the new Build Agent
If you’re interested in versioning your database packages with the new build agent here is an easy way to get started. I started off with the following PowerShell example of a build script from the Visual Studio product groups’ build docs for versioning C# and VB projects and made a few tweaks to update the relevant XML […]
Continue readingTFS15 RC2 Upgrade with SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn
Upgrading is very straight forward, improvements were done in .NET 4.6.1 related to the MultisubnetFailover and AlwaysOn. Here is the section from the .NET team this blog post that is relevant for SQL AlwaysOn. The connection string in TFS still sets MultisubnetFailover to true but it is no longer required any longer. Improve MultisubnetFailover connection […]
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TFS Install with SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn
If you’re curious about the steps to install TFS with SQL Server AlwaysOn I will be going through them and it’s really very easy. This blog post assumes the availability group and listener is already up and running. Windows Server 2016 One new features I loved was I could now use a Cloud Witness as […]
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SonarQube 6.0 integration with TFS15 RC behind ARR 3.0
If you have been thinking of moving to the latest version of SonarQube and you’ve been using the new Active Directory plugin unfortunately it is not compatible with this release, you can see reference to the issue here. The StyleCop plugin for C# which I referenced in an earlier post has been deprecated. I will […]
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