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Trigger Build Based on Label/Tag – VSTS/TFS
You might want to trigger a build for a team foundation version control (TFVC) Label applied previously or if you are using Git version control for a Tag. Git tags are quite nicely supported in...
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Deploying Two Deployment Group Targets on Same Machine
Deployment groups are the recommended approach to use with VSTS for setting up release management based automated deployments. Can two team projects of same VSTS account with two deployment groups,...
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Resolving “The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web' specified could not be found”
While using .NET Core 2.0 you may run into errors which may not be clear. “The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web' specified could not be found.” is one such error which appears, when trying to load .NET Core...
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Cloning TFS 2018
How to clone TFS before TSF 2018 is explained in posts, Backing Up and Restoring Databases, Prepare Restored Databases and Configuring the AT. Out of these steps Backing Up and Restoring Databases is...
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Finding Active Team Projects Based on Code CheckIns/Commits
When you have many team projects in your TFS instance or in your team services account (VSTS), manually finding out what are the active projects is not going to be an easy task, by looking at each code...
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Visual Source Safe (VSS) to TFS Migration
In modern software development usage of only a source control mechanism would not add value to the software delivery process. However, some organizations still using Visual Source Safe (VSS) to manage...
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Securing Build Definitions When Multiple Teams Work on a Single Team Project
Securing a build definition is quite straight forward when an organization uses multiple team projects in VSTS/TFS to handle different applications they develop. Each team project build administration...
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VSTS Build, node-sass and HTTP 404
When you are building node js projects with VSTS you may encounter some strange errors which are very hard to diagnose due to misleading error messages. node-sass and Http 404 error is one such error...
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Using NuGet Packages as VSTS Release Artifact Source
If you are used to deploy your solutions with Octopus deploy which a re built with VSTS/TFS, you are used to package your build output as a NuGet package and use it in Octopus. Now you can use the...
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Packaging "Assemblies in GAC Installed with SDKs" in Build and Getting...
There can be projects depending on assemblies in Global Assembly Cache installed with may be a internal company SDK, which would even be installed in developer machines and in build servers. These...
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Building and Deploying Windows Services with VSTS/TFS
Generally windows services are deployed by creating an msi installer. It is possible to deploy msi via VSTS/TFS release management using the extension available in the marketplace. Packaging the...
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Integrating VSTS Package Feed to Octopus
Octopus deploy is used by many organizations as their continuous deployment tool. You can send a package to Octopus deploy server via VSTS build or release step, using “Push Packages to Octopus” task...
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Securing Release Definitions When Multiple Teams Work on a Single Team Project
We have explored “Securing Build Definitions When Multiple Teams Work on a Single Team Project” in a previous post. Now the folders to group release definitions and applying permissions to isolate each...
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Controlling Octopus Releases with VSTS Release Management
You may be using Octopus deploy for your deployment automation pipeline needs while you are having your builds and work items managed in VSTS. It is a good idea to manage the Octopus release pipeline...
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Finding Membership Information of a User/Group/Team in VSTS/TFS
Managing permissions of a VSTS/TFS sometimes become a nightmare specially if you have many teams groups etc. created in your account and in team projects. It is important to have a way to find group...
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Solving OutOfMemoryException and Getting NUnit Tests on Visual Studio Test...
It is fun to work with latest tools and frameworks but sometimes errors are bit confusing and searching for fix is not that easy. One team worked with NUnit and .NET 471 and complaint that the when...
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Developing Azure Functions in Visual Studio and Creating a Deployment...
Serverless computing has become a hot topic these days. It is providing you with paying only for the actual time your code is running and resources you are consuming without any worries about...
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Setting VSTS Release Variable Values At the Time of Creating a Release
VSTS builds have the option to set build variable values at the time of queuing a build. You have to select option for build variable “Settable at queue time” to enable it to be set value at the time...
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Values of repositoryType Parameter in VSTS REST API
VSTS REST API is really useful in achieving automations in many aspects of the software development process, and it can be used to write some handy utilities to obtain information quickly with...
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Check if a Build Definition Exists for a Given Repo in VSTS/TFS
In scenarios where you have many teams working in the same team project, you might have multiple TFS Git repos within a single team project. When you want to create a build definition for a given repo,...
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