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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Integrating TeamCity with Team Foundation Server – Part 2
July 17, 2015 
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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 […]
Continue reading Integrating TeamCity with Team Foundation Server – Part 1
July 16, 2015 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 […]
Continue reading Modern tools glossary
May 11, 2015 3 Comments
Maybe I am getting old, maybe I am too busy with other stuff but the number of frameworks, tools and utilities has seemed to grow exponentially over the last years. As a Microsoft developer from “the early” I usually only had to worry about a new version of Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server or a […]
Continue reading A team is a group of people … A group of people is NOT a team
April 9, 2015 2 Comments
In my work as a consultant I visit many companies. Sometimes for a day and sometimes for a longer period. What I see more than once is that organizations are still organized as departments. For example an application support department or an IT-Pro department. Surely this is not a problem. But what I do see […]
Continue reading Start with Visual Studio Release Management vNext–VS RM for Dummies
February 4, 2015 12 Comments
Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 3 came with Visual Studio Release Management vNext. vNext is, next to the deployments with agents, another way of doing deployments with VSRM. The most important thing in vNext is that you can do deployments to machines, without having to install an agent. This is because VSRM vNext uses Powershell […]
Continue reading Silently install and configure a TFS Build server with Powershell DSC
September 24, 2014 8 Comments
A while ago Powershell Desired State Configurations (DSC) was introduced. Powershell DSC allows you to create a configuration of a specific machine in a powershell file. The Powershell engine takes care of rolling out this configuration. This configuration snippet makes sure a IIS is present. If it already is it stops, if not, it installs […]
Continue reading The Road to Continuous Delivery–Part 1
June 6, 2014 0 Comments
Introduction Continuous Delivery. You hear and read a lot about it lately and it seems to be or become a trend. What I see in the field is that companies think about Continuous Delivery but are not completely sure what it actually means. Let alone that they can oversee the impact of a Continuous Delivery […]
Continue reading Combining TFS Version Control and Git with Git-TF
March 27, 2014 2 Comments
For a customer I am (together with my colleague Jasper Gilhuis) setting up a hybrid solution regarding Version Control. Some Scrum teams use Git as their primary Source Control system and most of them use TFS Version Control. What we see at different organizations is that it requires the teams to check-in all code […]
Continue reading A practical guide for dealing with capacikill in TFS
February 19, 2014 4 Comments
Capacikill? What the … is that? Actually it is a word I made up. To be honest it was a colleague who talked about capacity in a noisy room and I thought I heard him say it. I understood capacikill and the word had a meaning to me right away. As you can obviously see, […]
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I speak at Techorama 2017
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Slides & Demos from Techorama 2017
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REST call to get all tasks in your VSTS account
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Using VSTS Package Management as a private Chocolatey Gallery
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Using VSTS Package Management as a private Powershell Gallery
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Only trigger a release when the build changed
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Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online
- Changing the product backlog in TFS 2012
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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting environment and structure
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Running a Visual Studio Build vNext agent in a Docker container
