Tag Archives: VSTS

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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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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Versioning your database packages (.dacpac) with the new Build Agent

October 30, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


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 […]

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SQL Server, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team Services
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vsts-agent Build Definition for .NET Core (with Test Results)

September 17, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


The other day I cloned a .NET Core sample app MusicStore from GitHub to VSTS and wanted to configure a build definition and run unit and integration tests using hosted build agent. The Visual Studio Build Definition Template which I chose did not work out very well 😦 Clone the MusicStore to your Git Repo in the Code hub and it […]

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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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