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Roll out a service fabric application with LaunchDarkly and VSTS

December 13, 2016 Mike Kaufmann

This post shoes the LaunchDarkly extension for Visual Studio Team Services and how you can use it to deploy a Azure Service Fabric application wit a feature flag.

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Deploy Azure Service Fabric Application with VSTS

November 29, 2016 Mike Kaufmann

Configure a build and release pipeline for a Azure Service Fabric microservice application with Visual Studio Team services.

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Set up a Linux Build Agent for Docker

November 28, 2016 Mike Kaufmann

Docker is getting more and more popular. At Connect() 2016 Microsoft announced the Azure Web Apps on Linux that support docker. To build your containers

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12 steps to get started with Mobile DevOps

June 29, 2016 Mike Kaufmann

I prepared my mobile DevOps demo for our roadshow yesterday. I created an end to end scenario with Xamarin, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), the

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How to deploy SharePoint Apps with VSTS Release Management

March 23, 2016 Mike Kaufmann

Continuous Deployment of SharePoint Apps (a.k.a Add-Ins) is tricky. The app package is intended to be created for every environment because it must contain a

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Set assembly and app version to a matching build name in TFS 2015 or VSO Build.VNext

November 1, 2015 Mike Kaufmann

One of the most common customizations in TFS XAML build templates was to automatically update the assembly version number. This can also be done in

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VSTS Plugin for FeatureSwitcher

August 3, 2017 Mike Kaufmann

Today I released a Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS) Plugin for FeatureSwitcher – an open source .NET project to help you with FeatureFlags. The FeatureSwitcher.VstsConfiguration

Fix slow performance of npm tasks on TFS build agent

July 31, 2017 Mike Kaufmann

Problem TFS or VSTS builds that contain npm tasks take a very long time on a private build agent. As you can see in the

TFS Identity Synchronization Job Error

April 11, 2017 Mike Kaufmann

Fix error ‘TF20507: The string argument contains a character that is not valid:’u65279′.’ in TFS identity synchonization job.

Git for Windows with TFS and SSL behind a proxy

February 3, 2017 Mike Kaufmann

How to configure git for windows to work with SSL and a corporate certificate, and how to configure git proxy settings to work with local and remote repositories.

Error when you install Visual Studio 2017 RC.3

February 1, 2017 Mike Kaufmann

Problem If you install Visual Studio 2017 RC.3 on a machine that already had an older Version of Visual Studio “15” installed you get different

There is no DevOps without feature flags!

December 21, 2016 Mike Kaufmann

If you want to do DevOps, there is no way around feature flags. But without a good strategy and the right framework you will generate a lot of technical debt. Here a few things you should consider when implementing a feature flag strategy.

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