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11/29/2021

Thanks for sneaking the candy into my order!

10/13/2021

Thanksgiving weekend - so many fall colours

07/23/2021

Thank goodness it’s Friday!! What a week.

08/03/2019

I recently installed Windows Services for Linux V2 (WSL2) and saw a Tech Preview of Docker Desktop WSL 2 posted and was extremely excited to give it a try. If you are interested read on. Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Get the latest Windows Insider Build, you find out more here on the Quick Start page Enable WSL (WSL 1.0) [ 1,138 more word ]

I recently installed Windows Services for Linux V2 (WSL2) and saw a Tech Preview of Docker Desktop WSL 2 posted and was extremely excited to give it a try. If you are interested read on. Windows 10…

07/26/2019

UI Testing with Microsoft-hosted Agents Microsoft-hosted agents are pre-configured for UI testing and UI tests for both web apps and desktop apps. The agents are also pre-configured with popular browsers and matching web-driver versions that can be used for running Selenium tests. The browsers and corresponding web-drivers are updated on a periodic basis. (ref.) It's great to have a complete CI-CD pipeline but if you have no way of knowing whether it actually works or not… [ 424 more words ]

UI Testing with Microsoft-hosted Agents Microsoft-hosted agents are pre-configured for UI testing and UI tests for both web apps and desktop apps. The agents are also pre-configured with popular br…

07/23/2019

I wanted an excuse to use the 4.* (preview) version of the task so I could take the Az module out for a spin. My goal was to perform the following steps I would normally perform with a browser and mouse in the Azure Portal: Delete Resource Group if it already exists Create Resource Group Create an App Service Plan… [ 787 more words ]

I wanted an excuse to use the 4.* (preview) version of the task so I could take the Az module out for a spin. My goal was to perform the following steps I would normally perform with a browser and …

07/20/2019

Update your URL for your organization In the settings for your organization you can update your URL from {organization}.visualstudio.com to dev.azure.com/{organization}. Of course once you do this some of the environment variables used by Build and Release will change and if you took a dependency on their format things will break. Failing PowerShell task We happened to have a PowerShell script named… [ 302 more words ]
http://blogs.like10.com/2019/07/20/update-your-azure-devops-rest-api-urls-after-moving-your-organization-under-dev-azure-com/

Update your URL for your organization In the settings for your organization you can update your URL from {organization}.visualstudio.com to dev.azure.com/{organization}. Of course once you do this …

07/08/2019

I think you'll find this implementation of CosmosDB Server for testing your applications locally quite interesting. We will going through the following steps: Download node Make an empty package.json file Install cosmosdb-server using npm Create an app.js file Install cosmos dependency using npm Start your cosmosdb-server Make sure in your TestClass TestInitialize method to ignore SSL verification (self-signed cert) Run your unit tests… [ 362 more words ]

I think you’ll find this implementation of CosmosDB Server for testing your applications locally quite interesting. We will going through the following steps: Download nodeMake an empty packa…

07/07/2019

Donovan Brown posted a How to on this earlier this year, I wanted to see if it was possible to do it using the az group command. This is what I finally came up with. I downloaded and installed the latest PowerShell Core for Windows from GitHub releases. I picked the latest preview V7.0.0-preview.1 release and installed the Az module as per the steps… [ 167 more words ]

Donovan Brown posted a How to on this earlier this year, I wanted to see if it was possible to do it using the az group command.  This is what I finally came up with. I downloaded and installe…

07/29/2018

DevOps with Dynamics 365 using VSTS

Automated DevOps pipeline to deliver Dynamics 365 customizations more frequently in a consistent and reliable way.