Currently I am working at Rabobank. Rabobank uses Sonatype Nexus as their artifact repository for all kinds of packages and also for Docker Containers. Since there are a few Microsoft .Net teams are moving towards Docker, the need for Docker containers arose as well. So we created a Windows Base container and tried to push […]
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Setting up Sonatype Nexus 3 as your Windows Docker Container Registry
November 22, 2017 
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Release Management hangs and there is no log in place…
February 15, 2016 Comments Off on Release Management hangs and there is no log in place…
This week I encountered a very strange error with release management 2015.1 (so the old, grey, WPF version) We upgraded our TFS server to 2015.1 and everything was fine. We started a release and everything was fine. But the second time we started a release it only went through the first stage of our release […]
Continue reading Build fails when associating work items
March 16, 2015 Comments Off on Build fails when associating work items
Recently I ran into a strange problem. I modified a work item type definition and added a field. So far, so good. The field could be edited and everyone was happy. But after that, my build failed. As you may or may not know you can choose to associate work items during a check-in (read […]
Continue reading Trigger a vNext release template from a build definition throws Http Error 500
February 23, 2015 4 Comments
Last week I was busy with some work on a vNext Release template. When my release worked I wanted to trigger that release from my build definition. Where as in the agent-based Release Management it was a matter of checking a checkbox and using a different Build Template that triggers this release, in the vNext […]
Continue reading Error in TFS 2013 build – Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.WebApi
August 1, 2014 7 Comments
Recently I installed TFS 2013.2 and modified some Build Templates. I also installed a separate Build Server that executes these builds for me. My build template was based on the default TFS 2013 Build template (Tfvctemplate.12.xaml) When my build executed, it ran for a while, but eventually it stopped with a nasty error message An […]
Continue reading TFS Build throws CRC in GZip footer error
May 2, 2014 2 Comments
This week I encountered a really nasty problem with the Team Foundation Server Build Agents. Before I walk you through the details let me first explain the situation. Scenario At a customer we are building a new build “farm” (a little farm 😉 ). Currently we have 2 build servers with each 2 agents on […]
Continue reading Visual Studio 2013 freezes when performing Load Test on Azure
November 6, 2013 Comments Off on Visual Studio 2013 freezes when performing Load Test on Azure
Since the release of Visual Studio 2013 a few weeks ago we have the possibility to use the immense power of the cloud to perform Load Tests on our public websites. This is a Team Foundation Service feature and can be used when you have a TF Service account. For now, since the load test […]
Continue readingCustom Build Activities Type is greyed out in Build Definition editor
November 21, 2012 3 Comments
Lately I am quite busy with building Custom Build activities for TFS 2012. I also did this in TFS 2010 but it seems that I avoided some issues there. In my previous blog posts I described some migration issues with TFS build. This is about an issue I had with Custom Build Activities. Error when […]
Continue reading‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IProjectFile’ is obsolete
September 5, 2012 Comments Off on ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.IProjectFile’ is obsolete
For my customer I was implementing some advanced BuildNumbering mechanism (Here can you find a good post about this). Because it was important that the stuff worked, I wrote some Unit Tests. I usually do that and need IBuildDetail. Jim Lamb has a great post about how to stub The IBuild…interfaces when you create your […]
Continue readingError when copying Build Template “The type ‘TfsBuild.Process’ already contains a definition for…”
July 9, 2012 1 Comment
I do quite a lot of Build customizations and usually I create a new Build Template for each type of Build I want to do. You can choose to copy the file in the Build Definition Editor or you can just Copy/Paste the file in Windows Explorer. The advantage of the editor is that it […]
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- MIND MATTERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATING A DEVOPS MINDSET
- Knowledge Driven Culture
- Remove the [External] Tag in Outlook
- Aligned Autonomy in Practice
- Building an Engineering Culture
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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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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
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