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Resolve - TFS Build Hang When Building Wix Projects
Wix tools can be used to generate msi installable packages, .exe setup bundles, .msm merge modules, and .msp patches. Getting a wix project built with visual studio is fairly simple. If you are using...
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Setup yo team
yo team is a great NPM package by Donovan Brown, to automate creation of build and release pipelines. You can use it to generate app with CI/CD in Team Foundation Server 2017 or Visual Studio Team...
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Building ASP.NET Core 1.1 Web App with Team Services
ASP.NET Core 1.1 is available with Visual Studio 2017 and it is based on .csproj to provide us with a consistent experience inside Visual Studio. .csproj will be the way forward with ASP.NET Core and...
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Enable Conditional Build/Release Tasks in VSTS
TFS/VSTS new build and release management is providing great flexibility in implementing CI,CD pipelines. To further enhance the flexibility a new feature “Conditional Tasks” is introduced to Tasks of...
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Auto Generating CD Build/Release Pipeline Targeting Azure App Service for MVC...
VSTS allows great flexibility with it’s new web based build and release management features. You have several templates which can be used to create build and release definitions you need quickly. Lots...
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C# developers often use string.Format in handling string. string.Format the { and } is used as a special character to identify the parameters.For example:scrollDepth = “10”string.Format("DOWN...
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Deployment Groups in VS Team Services
Deployment groups provide robust out-of-the-box multi-machine deployment with team services release management. It allows you to run deployments across multiple machines. You can install agent on each...
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Deploying Web Apps to Azure Virtual Directories
My friend Jaliya Udagedara has written nice post here, explaining how to deploy a Core web application into Azure App Service Application virtual directory. Below is comparison of few more settings you...
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Team Services Process Customization
Team Services is coming up with many improvements and one of it is the new process customization experience introduced recently. This allows you to have your own custom work item types, custom work...
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Custom States for Work Items in Team Services with New Process Customization...
Custom states for work items could be introduced and usage of new custom workflow for state transitions, is possible in team services from some time back. The post here describes how to customize work...
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Team Services - Custom In Progress Sate to Completed State – Closed Date Not...
Team Services now allows work item states to be customized and you can change the workflow to your preference. This is explained in the previous post “Custom States for Work Items in Team Services with...
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Ignoring Visual Studio 2017 Created Files in Git
Visual Studio 2017 creates few files such as slnx.sqlite, .suo and these files often give trouble if you get it added to a branch in Git version control. Every time you open a solution in Visual Studio...
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Sizing Backlog Items with Team Services
Backlog item sizing will help an Agile team to identify their velocity and plan for future iterations/sprints considering it. It is important the team members have discussed a backlog item and have a...
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New Release Definition Editor–Team Services
Release definition in Team Services helps you to define deployment pipelines across target environments. You can setup a release definition to deploy via agents, deployment groups or execute agent less...
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Show Hidden Fields with Empty Values for Edit - Kanban Cards - Team Services
With the latest release to Team Services Kanban Card has been added with a new feature. Previously, if you want to edit a value in a field that is currently empty, in the Kanban Card You had to keep...
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TFVC History Report with PowerShell
Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) is widely used with Team Foundation Server and in Team Services, as a source control system to manage source code repositories.Usage of TFVC can be found here. If...
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Cloning Your TFS Server Part 01 – Backing Up and Restoring Databases
You might want to clone your TFS instance if you are doing a hardware move upgrade. There can be other situations such as you need to move one of your projects to VSTS (Team Services) using high...
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Cloning Your TFS Server Part 02 – Prepare Restored Databases
You have to make sure you are not corrupting your current TFS instance that is up and running, while you are cloning a TFS instance. For this you need to prepare the restored databases of the TFS, in...
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Cloning Your TFS Server Part 03 – Configuring the AT
To clone an instance of a TFS server while the current live instance is running it is required to take backups as explained in “Cloning Your TFS Server Part 01 – Backing Up and Restoring Databases” and...
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TFS 2018 RC1 – Installation in Windows Server 2012
TFS 2018 RC1 is now available and you can download it from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/. Release note here explains the new features you can expect in TFS 2018. Below features are going to...
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