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
How to get .NET Core Code Analysis to SonarQube including Code Coverage. Continue reading .NET Core, SonarQube and Code Coverage
Finding the best git branching strategy for the teams in your organisation. Continue reading Git Branching Guidance for DevOps Teams
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
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
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
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
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
We migrated our on premise TFS to the cloud using third party tools. This was really hard and took us over a year. I’m glad I had not tried this with a customer. The good new is: Microsoft announced this … Continue reading Migrate from your on premise TFS to Visual Studio Team Services
Creating web performance tests in Visual Studio for SharePoint on premise is easy and well documented. But writing them for Office 365 / SharePoint online is another thing. The authentication can be different – depending on you configuration – and … Continue reading How to write web performance tests for SharePoint Online and ADFS
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