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Card Style Rules - VSO
Visual Studio Online recently added with some amazing set of features. Capability to apply styles based on rules to a card on Kanban board is one such feature. The style for card can be set on Backlog...
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Change Release Management Server URL in Release Management Client (Resolve...
Setting up Release Management Server URL in Release Management Client should be done when it is set up initially. In an already configured client, it is possible to change the URL of the server, in...
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Change RM Deployment Agent Temp Download Path – Resolve “The specified path,...
In an agent based release template, when the build output is downloaded to with a components using XCopy tool, the error below might be encountered, if there is web sites or projects, containing a lot...
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Release Stopped while Deployment Task - Communication with the deployer was...
What happens if a release a VS Release Management agent based release is stopped, while a deployment action is pending?Release stopped and following message received.Communication with the deployer was...
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Get a Build Note Between Given Two Builds Using PowerShell
A build associates work items from last good build to the current successful build. What if you want to find the associated work items between two builds, while having other successful builds in the...
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Resolve Common Errors - Run Automated Tests with VS Release Management 2013
There is a tool available in Release Management 2013 to execute automated tests, once the deployment completes. How to setup this is well explained in article here....
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Disable Lock Screen on Windows 8.1 to Prevent - Automation engine is unable...
You might run into below error with automated testing with lab environments.*******************************************************************************************************Error calling...
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Increase Default Timeout of Copying Test Binaries to Test Client – Allow...
Default timeout for downloading test binaries to execute automated tests in a lab environment is 5 minutes. This might not be enough if the test assemblies are high in size, and test client machine is...
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Send Test Result Email After Running Automated Tests with Release Management
Getting automated tests executed after deployment actions, it self is challenging with release management. Below are some helpful links on “how to overcome them”.Resolve Common Errors - Run Automated...
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VSO as A Cross Platform Capable DevOps Tool – My Tech Talk @ SLASSCOM IT Week
http://www.slasscom.lk/content/mastering-continous-delivery
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VS Team Services – Work Item Visualization Extension
There are many great extensions available for Visual Studio Team Services (former VSO), in the Market Place. One of them is Work Item Visualization Extension. You can add this extension to your Visual...
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Apply Build Number to Assembly Version with New TFS Builds (Build vNext)
To assign the build number as the assembly version, PowerShell script available here can be used. Let’s see how to set this up for TFS builds step by step.First, a small console application created...
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Build Java Code with Visual Studio Team Services Using Ant
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has evolved into cross platform capable, great Application Lifecycle Management and DevOps tool. Building java applications with VSTS hosted build services is...
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Part 1 Build ASP.Net 4 Web Site - Deploying to Azure Web Site with Visual...
Visual Studio Team Services now has Release Managment Services available as public preview. As the fiirst step let’s create a simple ASP.Net 4 MVC web site and build it with Visual Studio Team Services...
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Link Azure Subscription to Visual Studio Team Services Team Project
Inorder to Team Project in Visual Studio Team Services, to use Azure Deployment in build and deployment tasks, Azure Susbscriptions should be linked to VS Team Service. To link a subscription you can...
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Part 2 Deploy ASP.Net 4 Web Site - Deploying to Azure Web Site with Visual...
We have successfully built and produce downloadble build output in the Part 1 Build ASP.Net 4 Web Site. Let’s look at how we can setup a Release Pipeline with Visual Studio Team Services Release...
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Add to GAC (Global Assembly Cache) with Poweshell Remoting
Script made available here, by me allows the files to be added to GAC (Global Assembly Cache) in a remote machine, using poweshell (This script was created on a great sample script available in this...
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Update Script Timeout in MTM Test Settings
You could run into default script timeout of five minutes, while running scripts before running tests using MTM.Error 1/19/2016 11:10:39 AM The setup batch file on agent machine...
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Build ASP.Net 5 (RC1 Update1) Project with Visual Studio Team Services Build
Building ASP.Net 4 MVC witth VS Team Services Build and deploying it to Azure web site with VS Team Services Release, is somewhat straight forward. But building an ASP.Net 5 MVC 6 (EF 7) web...
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ASP.Net 5 (RC1 Update1) Deploy to Azure Website with Visual Studio Team...
How to setup a build with Visual Studio Team Services, for building ASP.Net 5 (ASP.Net Core 1.0 now) is explained in here. Let’s look at steps necessary to create a release pipeline to deploy, ASP.Net...
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