Quick start with Azure Storage Emulator
Today we are going to try the Azure Storage Emulator. A local, development emulator for Azure Storage services. Keep reading…
By Mirek on (tags: azure, Azure Tables, categories: architecture, tools)Develop your Visual Studio Team Services extension live
As promissed, today I will show you how I finally managed to debug my Visual Studio Team Services extension. Will try to describe it as clear as I can. Keep reading…
By Mirek on (tags: debug, extension, IIS Express, Type Script, visual studio, VSTS, categories: tools, infrastructure, web)Create Visual Studio Team Services extension
In this post I will give you a couple of hints and tips on hot to start creating and deploying an extension for Visual Studio Team Services. Keep reading…
By Mirek on (tags: extension, visual studio, VSTS, categories: tools, web)Automate your application translation in VSTS
In this post I will show you a way to make your application translations to be done in Visual Studio Team Services. I will use a POEditor subscription for that. Keep reading
By Mirek on (tags: POEditor, Translations, VSTS, categories: tools)MSTest V2–improved Microsoft test framework
Microsoft has finally catched up with their test framework. Now it can easilly challenge all other testing framework players with its functionality and features. Read more for details…
By Mirek on (tags: MSTest, test framework, unit testing, categories: tools)TFS 2017 Removing orphaned workspace with pending changes
After we migrated our TFS 2010 installation to latest TFS 2017 it turned out that there are some conflicts with the workspaces. Here is a simple solution how to handle such problems.
By Mirek on (tags: TF, TFS 2017, categories: tools, infrastructure)Replace all magic string with just one regex
Today I am going to show you how to use a regular expression with back reference matching to quickly replace all occurrences of magic strings to strong type names.
By Mirek on (tags: INotifyPropertyChanged, nameof, regex, visual studio, categories: tools)Signing ClickOnce with password protected PFX certificate
This time I had to find out how to make the TFS build step use a PFX certificate file to sign the ClickOnce manifest. It turned out to be quite a tricky task though.
By Mirek on (tags: certificate, ClickOnce, deployment, Mage.exe, tfs, categories: tools, infrastructure)WPF app crashes after migration to TFS 2017
Recently we’ve migrated our projects repository from TFS 2010 to TFS 2017. Unfortunately it soon turned out that WPF projects doesn’t cooperate with new TFS.
By Mirek on (tags: AssemblyVersion, msbuild, resource dictionary, TFS 2017, WPF, XAML, categories: architecture, tools)Upload custom build task after TFS 2017 Update 1
Over a year ago I’ve posted a guide on how to upload a custom build task to Team Foundation Server 2015. The solution was based on a TFS REST api which allowed to manipulate build tasks easily. Things have changed since then unfortunately…
By Mirek on (tags: build, tfs, vNext, categories: tools, infrastructure)