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Getting Content of a File in VSTS Git Repo
GItHub has a easy way to get raw contents of a file by clicking on Raw button for any code file in GitHub, where it will redirect to url starting with ‘https://raw.githubusercontent.com/’. For example...
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Using Unified Agent for Executing Automated Tests Without Installing Visual...
As described in the post “Running UI Tests with Unified Agent” you can setup unified agent (same agent used for build/deployment in Azure DevOps/VSTS), in an application pool or in a deployment group...
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Making a Task Group Parameter Optional – Azure DevOps Pipelines
Task groups are really useful to share common actions with multiple build or release pipelines in Azure DevOps (VSTS). You can group multiple tasks ang create a task group forma build or release...
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Build and Deploy SSIS with Azure DevOps Pipelines
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) projects can be created to perform ETL (Extract Transform and Load) operations. As Implementing of Continuous Delivery becoming a mandatory aspect of any type of...
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Azure DevOps Default Enabled Alert/Notification - Which Can be a Nightmare...
As an admin of an Azure DevOps account you may be creating sample environments to simulate production behaviors, before applying any process changes to a Team project. In this case your choice would be...
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Resigning and Deploying Xamarin iOS Apps with Azure DevOps
Creating iOS mobile application with Xamarin is a good option for developers who are familiar with Visual Studio family of products. Any project you create nowadays demand for CI/CD implementation as...
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Inspecting Most Frequently Changed Files in Azure Git Repos
When analyzing an application with its telemetry data we would be looking at usage of the application, and would be able to identify which parts of the system is often used. Wouldn’t it be nice to...
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Azure DevOps pipelines support default conditions allowing you to execute a step “Only when all previous tasks have succeeded”, “Even if a previous task has failed, unless the build was canceled”,...
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Choosing Right Size for Windows 10 VM in Azure to Run Docker
The post “Setup Windows 10 VM in Azure to Develop with Docker CE” has a detailed walkthrough on setting up Docker CE in Azure VM, which is using Windows 10. While trying out the same, encountered an...
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Steps to View Dashboard of Azure Kubernetes Cluster When RBAC Enabled
Azure Kubernetes Services offers you to host your containerized applications in Kubernetes without having to worry about getting the Kubernetes cluster infrastructure setting up and maintenance....
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Draft Pull Request in Azure Git Repos
Pull Request are the controlled way to bring in the changes to your stable branches in your Azure Git repos, or for that matter all Git providers support Pull Requests. In Azure DevOps now you can...
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Updating Test Case Work Item Tags and Description based on Test Automation...
A test automation development team has come up with a requirement to keep track of some test automation code related attributes and documentation descriptions in the relevant Test Case work items in...
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Deploying ASP.NET Core App to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)–Setting Up...
In the post “Deploy ASP.NET Core App to AKS with Azure DevOps” a quick start guide has been given on setting up an ASP.NET Core App with Azure DevOps projects. The application code, Azure Container...
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Deploying ASP.NET Core App to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)–Setting Up...
In the part 1 of this post, enabling Docker support for ASP.NET Core app and building and pushing the Docker image to Azure Container Service, using Azure DevOps build pipeline with simple steps was...
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Pull Request Report for Azure Git Repos
When you have several repos in your team project and if you want to obtain a report of pending pull requests, or even completed pull requests, you can use widget available here in your...
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Copying a Build Definition to Another Team Project in a Different Azure...
You can easily clone a build and create a new build definition in the same team project. This is useful when you have similar type of applications to be built. However, if you want to clone a build...
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Getting Started with Azure DevOps Command Line
Using command line to work with Azure related resources can be done easily using Azure CLI. Now there is an extension to Azure CLI allowing you to work with Azure DevOps. Let’s have a quick look at how...
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Setting a Release Variable to Make It Available to Other Stages in Azure...
You can easily set a variable in a build or release pipeline by executing “##vso[task.setvariable variable=variablename;]variablevalue” . This sets the variable for the scope of a given stage in a...
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Azure DevOps Service Connection for an Azure Subscription in Another Azure AD
Adding Azure Subscription to Azure DevOps as service connection is really simple when you have the same account you are using for Azure DevOps associated with your Azure Subscription. However, this...
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Join a Personal Azure DevOps Organization to a Company Domain
You might have started using Azure DevOps using Microsoft accounts. Later you may have established a company and may want to move the current Microsoft account based Azure DevOps organization to work...
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