Archive | January, 2016

Set DNX_BUILD_VERSION in the VSTS build

January 29, 2016 by Rene van Osnabrugge Comments Off on Set DNX_BUILD_VERSION in the VSTS build

In a project where we use ASP.NET 5 (or ASP.NET Core 1.0) we wanted to use dynamic versioning in the build. As described here you can use the asterisk (*) for the version in the project.json file If you set the environment variable DNX_BUILD_VERSION to a value, the asterisk will be replaced with this value. […]

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Set up a Test TFS environment with production databases

January 28, 2016 by Rene van Osnabrugge 5 Comments

I get this question quite a lot. We have a production environment and we want a Test environment for TFS. A Test TFS is quite useful for testing upgrades, setting up builds or testing out some build tasks or just as a sandbox for users who you do not trust with production data 🙂 Although […]

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Started the Dutch Microsoft ALM Group. First meeting March 3rd

January 27, 2016 by Rene van Osnabrugge Comments Off on Started the Dutch Microsoft ALM Group. First meeting March 3rd

Application Lifecycle Management, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile Scrum etc. All subjects where I am really passionate about. I spent most of my days working on this using tools like Visual Studio Team Services, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio etc. And it is still very alive! Although ALM is a term that is not commonly used […]

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Dutch Microsoft ALM Group
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