Archive | July, 2015

Uploading a custom build.vNext task

July 31, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 1 Comment

Originally posted on Real ALM:
With the introduction of the new build.vNext build system in Visual Studio Online and TFS 2015 (currently in RC) creating a build definition has become a lot easier. There are already quite a lot of tasks available, that allow you to build, test and deploy your software from the build…

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Get started with Docker on Azure for Microsoft developers and/or Linux noobs

July 31, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 4 Comments

I said it earlier in a previous post. The world is changing. And especially the world of Microsoft Developers. In my post about modern tools I presented a list with tools that a developers must have in his toolbox. This list did not contain a lot of Microsoft tools. In the ALM space, and here […]

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Articles, Cross Platform, Docker

Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online

July 22, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 24 Comments

People who use Visual Studio Online for a while are probably familiar with the alternate credentials. These are used when accessing the REST API or when using an external client for accessing your Git repositories. You configure your alternate credentials on your [My Profile] page and fill a username and password of your choice. Once […]

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Tips & Tricks, Visual Studio Online
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Integrating TeamCity with Team Foundation Server – Part 2

July 17, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 6 Comments

In my previous post I introduced TeamCity as  an alternative build server to use in conjunction with Team Foundation Server. This post mainly focused on getting started with TeamCity and building sources coming from Team Foundation Server. At the end of this previous post I talked about the dependency of TFS artifacts with the TFS […]

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Articles, Build, Cross Platform

Integrating TeamCity with Team Foundation Server – Part 1

July 16, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 3 Comments

In this cross-platform world, where everything integrates with … well everything, it is not unusual to come across companies that use more than one system for their Application Lifecycle Management. Team Foundation Sever offers a great solution if it comes to ALM. Work Item Management, Build Management, Release Management etc. But there is more available […]

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Articles, Build, Cross Platform