I am very excited about speaking at Microsoft Ignite this year. This will be my first time speaking at Microsoft’s yearly event focused on IT Professionals and Developers. I will be doing 2 sessions (1 will be repeated, so I will be speaking 3 times). You can see my sessions here: https://myignite.microsoft.com/speaker/218167?source=sessiondetail&sessionId=55854 The sessions will […]
This November, I will be back at Live! 360 in Orlando. The conference runs from November 12th through November 17th at the Royal Pacific Resort. I spoke there last year and I’m super excited that they invited me back. You can check out the event details at http://bit.ly/LSPK30_home, or go directly to sign up here: […]
When you create a team in Team Service, you get access to 3 backlog levels: – Epic – Feature – Backlog Items (or Stories or Requirements) Starting with the March 8th release, you can now define additional levels and assign either an existing or a new Work Item type to that backlog. This allows you […]
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 […]
The Nebbia team is going on the road! We recently announced a set of DevOps workshops that we will be delivering throughout the Southeast. This workshop is all about DevOps and Microsoft Azure, showing you how you can leverage Visual Studio Team Services to add value to your business in three key areas: • Streamlining […]
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 […]
Last week, Microsoft announced the ability to change work item types in VSTS. So if you create a Product Backlog Item, you can change it to a Bug. This came in handy today as I was entering a bug into VSTS, but I mistakenly entered it as a PBI. You can open the Work […]
VSTS and TFS has added a lot of functionality to make it easy to not just integrate with other parts of VSTS, but also to make your planning life simpler. One of the things that teams may do during a planning session is determine the test cases that should be run against a user story. […]
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 […]
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 […]