If you use Visual Studio Team Services for your build and deploy process, you may have noticed a new menu item pop up a few months ago – “Deployment Groups”. I’ve been using this new feature in new projects since it came out in preview in May and it’s a great way to handle deployments […]
Posts Tagged ‘VSTS’
Unit Tests with .NET Core and VSTS
Executing unit tests as part of a Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) build process has, until now, been the most pain free process I’ve ever encountered. In fact, if you select the Visual Studio build template, there is already a step that handles executing and publishing results of your unit tests. It assumes the convention […]
Git – If you don’t know, now you know!
Ever since Microsoft started adding support for Git into Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), many veteran developers on the Microsoft stack who had never used Git before started wondering what was up with that. One of the things I quickly picked up on at the Build 2016 conference is that most of the dev teams […]
How the Visual Studio Team Services Team Uses its Own Product
One of the sessions that I attended at Build 2016 was titled “DevOps at Scale: A True Story”. It was a really interesting presentation from Microsoft’s Principal Group Program Manager for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) about how they use their own product, VSTS, to build VSTS! Other Microsoft divisions also “dog food” VSTS quite […]
Visual Studio Team Services: Making DevOps Easier
After attending some of the sessions at Build 2016 and talking with various Microsoft employees, it has become very obvious to me that Microsoft has made DevOps a first-class citizen in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Here are some of the notes that I was able to jot down about VSTS. Home Page and Work Items […]