Azure Functions provide event-based serverless computing that make it easy to develop and scale your application. By using Azure Functions CI you can setup continious integration for your functions. Since a couple of months Visual Studio contains a preview with the ability to create a function project in Visual Studio, add functions using any supported…
For every application that is build a logging framework needs to be present. Tracing and Application are framework that can be used in almost every situation. Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. It can be used to monitor your live web application. It can automatically…
This post is written as a reminder for myself and for others who keep forgetting. The thing I keep forgetting is where to find the option to undo a check out on a file checked out by someone within TFS. It sometime happens that a file is kept checked out, because someone needed to leave early or even because…
From VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) your can deploy to a Azure Website directly directly from a build. Setting this up will require a couple of steps. In this blog post I will help you trough these steps. Create New Build Navigate to VSTS within the browser and open the team page where a build…
Just before the Christmas Holiday’s I wanted to share some insights with the readers of my blog around Development Cycles and Office365. Development Cycles can also be interpreted as DevOps. Where DevOps is more the culture and practice around the development cycles. According to Wikipedia DevOps can be described as this: “DevOps (a clipped compound…
Starting with Application Insights can be done by adding NuGet Packages to your project. In the above screenshot you see two NuGet Packages: Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.JavaScript: NuGet Package for JavaScript applications. Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web: NuGet Package for .Net web applications. By adding both packages you can use application insights in for example a MVC application. Adding those NuGet packages…
Application Insights has been around for a while now and after a while I was wondering if there was a integration within Visual Studio. For the readers that do not know what Application Insights is a small description: “Application Insights is an extensible analytics service that monitors your live application. It helps you detect and…
With the component created in part 2 we can start using it to deploy applications to our SharePoint environment. We start by creating a new template. For this post I assume you already created the release paths and have added the SharePoint servers to Release Management. To create a new template open Release Management and…
If you want to use the BizTalk Deployment framework in combination with Release Management you need to adjust the default build template that comes with Release Management. If you did not find it already you can find the default build template in the installation folder of release management. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Release Management\Client\bin\ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml…
To setup a build in combination with Release Management you need the Release Management build template. This template looks like the default build template but has an additional sequence action to start the release after the build is succeeded. The Release Management Build template can be found within the install location of release management. C:\Program…
In one of my previous post (Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management) I showed how you can make a custom action for Release Management to configure web bindings. As described in that post Release Management is a tool that provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by…
Release Management provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by automating deployments through every environment from test to production. Within Release Management you have al large set of default Actions and Components to configure a release cycle. On MSDN you can find a list with some common actions…