Tag Archives: Azure

Creating YAML Templates for Flyway CLI in Azure DevOps

November 7, 2024 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


I was lucky enough to work on a project recently. They chose to use Redgate Flyway Enterprise instead of Redgate SQL Change Automation which was quite exciting. Their goal was to deploy database changes to Azure SQL where they had several different environments (dev, test, staging and production). Redgate Flyway is available in three (3) […]

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Azure Pipelines
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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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start-job az group delete

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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Release Annotations

September 8, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


This functionality had been available previously under the name “Deployment Markers” back when Application Insights existed under Visual Studio Online.  Release Annotations for Application Insights is an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 Update 2 that will create annotations on the Application Insights Metrics Explorer timeline. To get started […]

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Application Insignts, Azure, Release Management, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Team Services
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The new web based Release Management “V.Next”

March 10, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 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 […]

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Azure, Microsoft Azure, Release Management, Visual Studio
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Simple Performance Testing for your Web App hosted in Microsoft Azure

October 22, 2015 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


Whether you have created an ASP.NET Web Application using the Visual Studio 2015 wizard and published it to Azure or you have uploaded some website files to a Web Application to Azure wouldn’t it be nice to have some way of performing a simple performance test to help you determine whether everything is alright with your […]

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Load Test, Microsoft Azure, Performance Test, Visual Studio Online
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MICROSOFT CLOUD TO TOUCH DOWN IN CANADA

June 2, 2015 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Toronto, June 2, 2015 – Microsoft today announced plans to deliver commercial cloud services from Canada. Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online will be delivered from Toronto and Quebec City in 2016, further strengthening Microsoft’s footprint in Canada’s competitive cloud landscape. Read more…

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Uncategorized
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Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure

Join us for the Virtual Event for Microsoft Visual Studio vNext and Azure

November 10, 2014 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


A cloud-first, mobile-first, developer-first, virtual event Don’t miss the Microsoft virtual event for developers this November! Scott Guthrie, S. Somasegar, Brian Harry, and Scott Hanselman will take the stage to show innovative, new Microsoft products, services, and technologies including .NET, Azure, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Online. Dive deeper into the technical details behind the […]

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Azure, Visual Studio
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