An extension that I otherwise thought to be obsolete as a result of an official VSTS extension for Visual Studio Code having been released, has received an update! The number of downloads keep increasing, and it appears it brings some value in addition to the official extension. will be spending some time over the next weeks bringing a couple of new features to it and trying to get feature requests implemented as well. ...
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!
In this post I have gathered ten useful features of Visual Studio Team Services. Many of these are not new features, but you had to dig a little to find out they were there. In the recent months the UI has received several improvements and some of these are now more visible, without having to dive deep in the collection administration. There are also a couple of recent additions that should make your life easier! ...
I am starting to find myself spend more and more time in Visual Studio Code. Instead of going to VSTS project sites to view status of my builds, I decided to put it directly into VS Code as an extension. The extension puts a status icon in the status bar which shows the status of a selected build definition. You can find the “Visual Studio Team Services Build Status” extension directly in VS Code or the market place https://github.com/jlandersen/vscode-vsts-build-status which also shows how to configure the extension with your VSTS account. ...
Recently, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) opened up the ability to make extensions with distribution through the Visual Studio Marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com). The marketplace and API is currently in preview, but I will show how easy it is to create an extension with some of the currently available features. Extensions are made using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You may also choose to go with TypeScript. The official documentation is also heavy on using TypeScript, so help is available either way. The official tool for packaging and managing extensions is written using Node.js and distributed via NPM. Why is all of this great? It means you can create extensions regardless of what platform you are sitting on (OS X, Windows, Linux). ...