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
Author: Mike Kaufmann
Michael Kaufmann is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM and is currently working as the Director for Development at Alegri. Mike has been working as an IT consultant, project manager and lead .net developer for nearly 18 years. In addition to implementing agile techniques (like scrum), ALM and DevOps practices, he is a SharePoint/O365 architect and a Clean Code addict. He shares his knowledge in trainings, his blog, articles and as a speaker at conferences.
Fix slow performance of npm tasks on TFS build agent
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
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
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
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!
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.
