On Thursday, May 19th, at Noon (Eastern), I will be presenting a Webcast: Build Automation & Continuous Integration with VSTS. This is Nebbia’s third Webcast in our Azure DevOps Series. This Webinar will show you how to create and manage build processes that automatically compile and test your applications. These builds can be triggered […]
If you need to know the branch that you are running your build against, you can use Build.SourceBranchName Environment variable. As described here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vs/alm/build/scripts/variables The name of the branch the build was queued for. For Git this is the last path segment in the ref. For example inrefs/heads/masterthe name ismaster. For TFVC this will last […]
I am very excited to announce my 6th Pluralsight course: TFS Build 2015: First Look. Late last year, Microsoft announced that they were working on a new build system to support TFS. Among many other things, the build system would have a web-based editor (no more XAML), reduce the infrastructure footprint to deploy your build […]
This weekend I’m heading down to South Florida Code Camp to cover some of my favorite topics. This is a great event that just keeps getting bigger and better every year and I really enjoy going down there. My talks are: 8:30 am – Git with the Program: Succeeding with Version Control Git is a […]
On Tuesday night, February 18th, I’m heading up to Jacksonville to speak at the Microsoft Developers User Group. I’m doing a new talk that will show attendees how to take use Visual Studio Online effectively. In addition to showing you the TFS features of Visual Studio Online, I will show you how to deploy a […]
On Tuesday, September 3rd (and again on the 17th), I am presenting a Microsoft Webinar on Continuous Integration with TFS 2012. Register here: https://clicktoattend.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=171397 Code -> Test -> Build -> Deploy. As teams become more agile, there is a higher expectation to deliver quality software in shorter timeframes. But how do you do that without […]
After upgrading your TFS Build Server to TFS 2012 Update 2, you will need to configure it. To do so, go to your TFS Admin Console on your build server and click on “Configure Installed Features” under the Build Configuration section: Note that you only have to do this if you upgraded your build […]
If you have a customized TFS Build Template, you are able to use it across multiple team projects without copying it to every team project in your collection. This is how you do it: From the Process tab of your build definition, expand the Process Template section by clicking on “Show Details”: Then, select “New” […]
I’m working on some build customization and I needed to be able to access parameter values from my build definition programmatically. It turned out to be pretty easy once I knew where to look: We start off by connecting to TFS and then to the Build Service: TfsTeamProjectCollection server = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri(“http://myTFS:8080/tfs”)); server.EnsureAuthenticated(); IBuildServer […]
On November 16th, I will be speaking at the Sarasota .NET Developers Group. You will learn the in’s and out’s of TFS Team Build, starting with Build Controllers and Agents and then all the way through to the new Workflow-based templates. We will go over how to create custom activities, and much more in order […]