Continuous Integration

Occasionally it is necessary to access services running on the host machine from a container. You may be inclined to use localhost to reach the host, but this will not work as the container itself is localhost. Here is how to access host services from a container running on Windows Server 2016. This applies to containers running with NAT networking mode. This is the default, so unless you explicitly use something else, this should work for you. ...

The goal of this article is to describe a fast way to get started with creating an end-to-end continuous deployment setup with Visual Studio Team Services and Azure. With few resources and in little time you should be able to get a full setup going that deploys a web application to Azure without any downtime for users. The article is split into three parts. This first part will provide a brief overview of the practices applied and services used in the setup. The remaining two parts will go into the details of setting it up. The parts are outlined as follows: ...

This saturday I had the opportunity to give a talk at Office 365 Saturday Denmark 2016, on Continuous Deployment with Visual Studio Team Services and Azure. Even though it was a last minute session I put together as a result of another speaker having cancelled due to illness I think it turned out great. Lot’s of good questions and interest! By request, the slides are available for download. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Running unit tests as part of the build process with Visual Studio Online requires no effort if you use Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework. But really, not a lot use that these days. I have done a few presentations on using the build services in Visual Studio Online for Continuous Integration. Unfortunately it seems common that it is a bit troublesome to run either xUnit or NUnit tests as part of the build process. Here are the few steps that enables either xUnit or NUnit with VSO Build (the new version!). ...