A couple of weeks ago the rename / rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services to Azure DevOps was announced. The rebranding is a great step forward into positioning the product even better and have more value for example for open source projects. The service know exists out of five services that can be used independent of…
Since a couple of months I have been developing extensions for Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS). I created extensions for task I had to do manual a couple of times. Last week I updated all of my extensions. File Content to Variable Small extension to save the content of a file within a variable. Release…
A utility task is available for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to invoke an http triggered Azure function. The ability to invoke a Function from your CI/CD pipeline offers a lot of new possibilities within those pipelines. Arguments The Arguments that you can configure on the utility task: Argument Description Azure function URL The URL…
Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to add and remove role based access assignments in Azure. VSTS Extension The screenshot below shows the extension. The extension can do two actions: Remove an Azure Role Assignment on a Resource Group. Add an Azure Role…
One of the things I like to do is sharing knowledge with the Community. I started my blog in 2008 and changed the platform a couple of times from WordPress to SharePoint and BlogEngine.Net to SharePoint to WordPress again. In 2017 my blog grew from 201 posts to 231 posts and the views on my…
Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to deploy PowerBI files (pbix) to PowerBI.com. It uses the PowerBI API that has the following operations (at the time of writing this article): Dataset operations: Get and create Datasets. Table operations: Get Tables and update Table schema. Row…
You can think of many situations where you would like to create a self hosted machine for Visual Studio team services (VSTS). Installing and configuring a self hosted machine requires only a few steps. Before you begin make sure the system meets the pre-requisites: Windows 10 and Beyond (64-bit): No known system prerequisites at this time.…
A couple of days ago I started developing extensions for Build and Release pipelines of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). One of these extensions is finished and I wanted to share it with the community. VSTS Extension The extension that I created is a build or release tasks that can be used to extract…
You can set up permissions and policies to control who can read and update code in a branch on your Git repo within VSTS. You can set permissions for individual users and groups, and inherit and override permissions as needed. Within regular projects you want to set up specific permissions and policies on your…
This year is my second year at Build. Most announcement during Build are given on Day 1. This blog post is a summary of announcement that I heard of during my sessions. The sessions I followed on day 1 are: Keynote DevOps for every Team Asp.Net Core 2.0 Continuous Delivery on Microsoft Azure Azure Compute:…
This post is the third and last one in a series of posts and will help you by deploying a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally written using the Azure Function Visual Studio template. Information and the Azure Function tools download are listed below: Finished Part 2 – Create…
This post is the second one in a series of three posts and will help you by creating a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally written using the Azure Function Visual Studio template. Information and the Azure Function tools download are listed below: Finished Part 1 – Creating a…