A few months ago, I blogged about moving a Git repo from GitHub to Team Services. Since then, Microsoft has added an even easier way to import any Git repo into your VSTS account. You can now import it directly from the Team Services: From the Repository dropdown list, select Import repository Enter the clone […]
Visual Studio Team Services is Microsoft’s cloud version of Team Foundation Server. By being hosted in Azure, it provides additional functionality and is typically ahead of TFS when it comes to features since new updates are deployed to VSTS every 3 weeks. One of the great features of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is that it allows […]
This is part 2 of a video series that will help you learn how to get started and use various Application Lifecycle Management tools. The videos are meant to be short and to the point to quickly show you how to perform specific tasks. Be sure to check back often for more videos! Last time, […]
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 […]
I released an update to one of my Pluralsight courses: Git for Visual Studio Developers. It now includes two new modules covering Pull Requests and CodeLens. Since the course was initially released in December of 2013, Microsoft released updates to TFS 2013 and they continue to update Visual Studio Online frequently (usually every 3 […]
When you first connect to a Git Repository in Visual Studio, you are going to be defaulted to cloning the Master remote branch. But what if you want to work on a different branch? You’ll need to clone that branch before you start working on it. If you look at the branches tab in Team […]
I really enjoy using Git and thanks to all the built-in functionality in Visual Studio, using it on a daily basis is a great experience. Unfortunately not all Git commands are in the IDE yet, so when I need to do something outside of Visual Studio, I go to command-line. Before you can use the […]
I’m working on an application that uses Git hosted by Visual Studio Online. My development site is hosted as an Azure website. I want to be able to push directly from my desktop to Azure, which is pretty simple to configure from the Azure portal by clicking on “Integrate source control” Then select Local Git […]
A few days ago Visual Studio and TFS 2013 Update 4 CTP1 was announced. One of the major features included in this update is the ability to perform Pull Requests when using Git. This is a very important Git feature and it is great to see it making its way to TFS on-premises. This feature […]
This Saturday, September 13, I am speaking at Code Impact in Jacksonville. This is a new community event started by my friend and community rockstar Bayer White who has a long history of putting together great events up in Jax. I’m presenting 2 sessions: 1:40 – 2:30 Plan, Create, and Deploy to Azure with Visual […]