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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)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)Over a year ago I’ve presented a solution to copy build definitions between team projects in new Team Foundation Server 2015. That was a workaround for missing functionality in TFS, so there was no standard way to save the build definition as a template and reuse it outside the scope of current team project. Well, in TFS 2017 it hasn’t change yet…
By Mirek on (tags: build definition, Powershell, tfs, vNext, VSO, categories: tools, infrastructure)