Visual Studio Installer not only allows you to manage all the different versions of Visual Studio you have installed on your workstation, you can also manage the channels for each of your products. For example Visual Studio 2019 allows you to select from the following update channels in update settings: Release Preview These settings are […]
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Testing your CosmosDB apps locally without actually using Azure
July 7, 2019 
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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 […]
Continue reading Visual Studio Web Application Debugging using SSL with Chrome Error
March 27, 2018 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 […]
Continue reading TFS 2017 Update 2 RC2 and work item type icons
July 21, 2017 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 […]
Continue reading TFS 2017 On-Premises and Git over SSL
April 17, 2017 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 […]
Continue reading Project contains an invalid database reference
October 30, 2016 0 Comments
If you have multiple developers working in a SQL Server Database Project and not all developers have applied the latest update they may see the following compilation error message for the System Database references: master and msdb. Project ‘[project_name].sqlproj’ contains an invalid database reference: ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\120\SqlSchemas\master.dacpac’. You must update the reference so that […]
Continue reading SonarQube 6.0 integration with TFS15 RC behind ARR 3.0
September 26, 2016 1 Comment
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 […]
Continue reading Working with Web Deploy and Release Management
September 8, 2016 6 Comments
I’ve spent quite a bit of time working with WebDeploy and Release Management lately for some clients. You should also be aware of the new tasks that were added to the Visual Studio Marketplace recently: The extension helps manage the following in IIS: Create a new website or update an existing website. Create a new […]
Continue reading The new web based Release Management “V.Next”
March 10, 2016 9 Comments
Release Management has been moving at a eager pace at Microsoft which you can see today on Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). I have been waiting for this same experience to be available on-premises and I’m happy to say it is included with the Release Candidate of TFS 2015 Update 2! Lots of new release […]
Continue reading SonarQube – root out the Technical Debt in your C# project
December 13, 2015 2 Comments
If you are looking for an installation guide for SonarQube the ALM Rangers have put one together here which you can use to assist you with your configuration and setup. Microsoft and SonarSource have been collaborating on a set of integration components that allow you to configure a TFS/VSTS Build to connect to a SonarQube […]
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