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Share Code With Your Own NuGet Feeds
I think most of us are familiar with what NuGet is, and how it can be used to add packages from the official NuGet feed to our projects. We can all agree on that It is a real convenient way of sharing...
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Fight Technical Debt with SonarQube
The longer a project continues, the more apparently innocent smells are added to the source code. Eventually, you will be in a swamp which is very hard to get out of. Technical debt is a devious thing...
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Automatically Stop Azure Resource Manager VMs
A question that I get fairly often is how to automatically stop virtual machines in Azure so that they get deallocated and practically does not cost anything. There are many ways to do this, and in...
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All too often I find myself in projects where there is no efficient strategy around updating databases. Databases should be able to be migrated to the latest version without too much effort. If it’s...
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Migrating a GitHub Repository to VSTS
Regarding migrations, I have previous experience with migrating on premise Team Foundation Servers (TFS) to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Those times I used tools such as the OpsHub Visual Studio...
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Implementing Custom Tasks in VSTS
I think that one of the strengths of the build and release system in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is the large variety of tasks that is available. If you ever want a task that does something that...
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Creating ARM Service Endpoints from Within VSTS
First, here is some background about what Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) can do concerning Azure Resource Manager (ARM). As you probably know, Releases in VSTS has the capability to deploy build...
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