If you didn’t yet happen to create a custom build step for Team Foundation Server 2015 take a look at my previous posts here and here. Today I will show you the right (IMHO) way of calling MSBuild from the custom build step.
By Mirek on (tags: build, ci, msbuild, Powershell, tfs, categories: tools, infrastructure)In previous post I showed you how to create a custom build step, upload and use it in the Team Foundation Server 2015. This time we will try to create more complex build task. This will be FTP uploader. Keep reading.
By Mirek on (tags: build, ftp, Powershell, tfs, categories: tools, infrastructure)If you have a nuget packages that you deploy from your source code and want to move to the TFS 2015, there are good news. Packing and publishing nuget packages is fully supported in vNext build definition. Let’s see how to achieve that.
By Mirek on (tags: nuget, package, tfs, categories: tools, infrastructure)The new vNext build system in TFS 2015 is simpler and easier to manage than the previous version, Windows Workflow based, build system. It builds up from a collection of build step which you can add and remove. The collection of available build steps is pretty rich and can be extended by a custom build steps. In this post I will show you how to easy create and deploy a custom vNext build step.
By Mirek on (tags: build, tfs, vNext, categories: tools, infrastructure)In this post I will show you a step by step guide to install and set up the on premise Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2. At the end of this tutorial you will have a working source control and build system based on TFS 2015 so you will be able to check-in the project code to it and trigger a build.
By Mirek on (tags: msbuild, TFS 2015, categories: tools, infrastructure)While exploring features of the new Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 I found that it is not possible to reuse a build definition created in one team project into another team project. Since this is a feature that I am going to use frequently, well, every time I start a new project, this is a must have functionality. In this post I will give you a complete solution I’ve came up with.
By Mirek on (tags: build definition, clone, tfs, VSO, categories: tools, infrastructure, code)B2B is based on invitation model which lets you enable access to your corporate applications from partner-managed identities. You can provide email along with the applications you want to share and send invitation to your partners, customers or anyone else who have account in Azure Active Directory. Azure AD sends them an email invite with a link. The partner user follows the link and is prompted to sign in using their Azure AD account or sign up for a new Azure AD account.
By Dawid on (tags: active directory, azure, b2b, categories: azure, infrastructure, code)If you’ve been following Microsoft announcements about Visual Studio Online over the last 12 months, you already know that you can easili integrate with VSO from any platform, technology, or device. Everything thanks to a new set of of JSON-based REST APIs. Those APIs enable a lightweight way to work with Team Foundation Server from virtually any device, platform, or technology…
By Dawid on (tags: api, hooks, online, REST, service, studio, tfs, visual, categories: tools, infrastructure, code)FileTable is a great new feature in SQL Server 2012 which facilitates storing and working with unstructured blob data in SQL Server. Unfortunately is not yet supported in Entity Framework, so you cannot simply use FileTable in your entity model. But there is a workaround for this inconvenience, which I am going to show you in this post.
By Mirek on (tags: Entity Framework, FILESTREAM, FILETABLE, SQL, categories: architecture, infrastructure, code)Localdb database is very flexible and comfortable to use. Although its purpose is rather to serve a development database storage, its also possible to use it in a production. Unfortunately using it in, for instance, Click-Once deployed application generates some strange problems. One of those mystery problems I faced recently.
By Mirek on (tags: localdb, categories: infrastructure)