Use pull request decoration in Azure DevOps with SonarCloud
How to use SonarCloud pull request analysis, pull request decoration and quality gates in Azure DevOps. Continue reading Use pull request decoration in Azure DevOps with SonarCloud
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Alexa, open Azure DevOps
In one of our Hackathons, we had the idea to create an Alexa skill to work with Azure DevOps Boards. The idea is, that you stand in a daily standup before a none touch display and can move your items … Continue reading Alexa, open Azure DevOps
Fail your Azure DevOps pipeline if SonarQube Quality Gate fails
Right now, there’s no way to fail your pipeline in Azure DevOps (a.k.a Visual Studio Team Services, VSTS) when your SonarQube Quality Gate fails. To do this you have to call the SonarQube REST API from your pipeline. Here is … Continue reading Fail your Azure DevOps pipeline if SonarQube Quality Gate fails
.NET Core, SonarQube and Code Coverage
How to get .NET Core Code Analysis to SonarQube including Code Coverage. Continue reading .NET Core, SonarQube and Code Coverage
Git Branching Guidance for DevOps Teams
Finding the best git branching strategy for the teams in your organisation. Continue reading Git Branching Guidance for DevOps Teams
Use the VSTS Package Management Extension behind a Proxy
Developing behind a proxy always has its challenges. I’ve already blogged about using git for windows behind a proxy. But the TFS server itself normally does not have to connect to the internet. This changes if you want to use the Package Management extension with NPM and upstream to public sources. If you are using TFS 2017 with Update 2, the simplest way to configure your TFS server to use the corporate proxy is to configure a proxy server in “Internet Properties” in IE on the server that TFS is running on. TFS will respect the settings because it follows … Continue reading Use the VSTS Package Management Extension behind a Proxy
VSTS Plugin for FeatureSwitcher
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 allows you to store and manage FeatureFlags as WorkItems in VSTS. Getting started The package … Continue reading VSTS Plugin for FeatureSwitcher
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 image, each npm stept takes more then 6 minutes – even a npm config. If … Continue reading Fix slow performance of npm tasks on TFS build agent
TFS Identity Synchronization Job Error
Fix error ‘TF20507: The string argument contains a character that is not valid:’u65279′.’ in TFS identity synchonization job. Continue reading TFS Identity Synchronization Job Error
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. Continue reading Git for Windows with TFS and SSL behind a proxy
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