Visual Studio and Azure DevOps Git: Extend the git command line with server commands–Part 2

The former post in this series showed how you could add aliases to the git command line, and showed how some simple aliases can simplify your command line work. This post show how you can extend that to work more actively with the Azure DevOps (formerly known as VSTS)  server hosting your repository. (If you Continue Reading →

A series of short recipes for VSTS, VISUAL STUDIO and NUnit

I have had a need to have more easy access to information on how to do certain stuff, and have some easy access to simple code blocks, or templates, I can copy/paste.  A blog post is for me somewhat more extensive, and that format was not really suited for smaller notes.  So I decided to Continue Reading →

How to conditionally fail a build in a pull requests with TFS/VSTS

When your TFS/VSTS CI build is also used for a pull request, you often want to enable more checks before you let this go into the master (or any target) branch, and fail the build if these raise warnings. It can be extra tests you want to run, code quality checks,  process checks, and  you Continue Reading →

How to control the selection of test runner in TFS/VSTS, making it work with x86/x64 selected targets

When you do test runs with the Test Explorer in Visual Studio, you can select to use either a x86 or a x64 test runner.  Now, if you select to create an AnyCPU target for that component, it will not matter which one you choose, but if you select a target x86 or x64, the Continue Reading →

Unit testing resources and articles for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013

The last year I have written three blog posts for the Microsoft MSDN ALM blog on unit testing. The posts focused on the new test explorer with its abilities to run tests in multiple frameworks, and utilizing traits to filter what to run, both in Visual Studio and on TFS Build.  I covered the adapters Continue Reading →

Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published

During the summer and fall this year, me and my colleague Jakob Ehn has worked together on a book project that has now finally hit the stores! The title of the book is Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter and is published by Packt Publishing. Get it from http://www.packtpub.com/team-foundation-server-2012-starter/book or from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1849688389                     The Continue Reading →