Tag Archives: Visual Studio Team Services

Migrate TFVC to Git

October 11, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Git is now the default version control provider for new Team Projects and it should be your first choice for version control unless you have a requirement for centralized version control system (TFVC). If you want to migrate from TFVC to Git you can use the git-tfs utility.  You can use two methods to install git-tfs, […]

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Visual Studio Team Services
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vsts-agent Publish artifact for a .NET Core Web Application

September 18, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


To continue from my last post where we published the Test Results, it makes sense I should continue and package the site and create an artifact to use later with Release Management. I am going to edit the same build definition from the last blog post and add a new Command Line task from the catalogue […]

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Visual Studio Team Services
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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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Working with Web Deploy and Release Management

September 8, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 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 […]

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Release Management, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services
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SonarQube – Active Directory Plugin

June 13, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If you’ve been using SonarQube with TFS on-premises chances are you using the LDAP plugin to integrate with your Active Directory.  We are currently running version 5.4 of SonarQube with v1.5.1 of the LDAP plugin and are migrating to SonarQube 5.6 which brought this to my attention. In Update Center in SonarQube you will see the […]

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Technical Debt, Uncategorized
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SonarQube – root out the Technical Debt in your C# project

December 13, 2015 by Wes MacDonald 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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Open Source, SQL Server, Technical Debt, Visual Studio
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