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

Posted on September 23, 2018 by terje — Leave a reply

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 Continue Reading →

Posted in Azure Devops, Branching, Git, Pull Requests, VSTS | Leave a reply

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

Posted on June 12, 2018 by terje — Leave a reply

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 Continue Reading →

Posted in Azure DevOps, Build, Code, Git, NuGet, NUnit, Testing, Visual Studio, VSTS | Leave a reply

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

Posted on February 5, 2018 by terje — Leave a reply

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) Continue Reading →

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

Posted on August 21, 2016 by terje — Leave a reply

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 Continue Reading →

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Unit testing resources and articles for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013

Posted on September 20, 2013 by terje — Leave a reply

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 Continue Reading →

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Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published

Posted on November 30, 2012 by terje — 1 Comment ↓

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 Continue Reading →

Posted in Azure DevOps, VSTS | 1 Comment ↓

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    Add this tag to the initial propertygroup
    AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath
    Set value to false

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