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This morning I saw a colleague working in Git-Bash and the good-old-fashioned "windows command line" and I thought to myself, why doesn't he "just" use Windows terminal? So, I showed him Windows Terminal and he was impressed. First thing he asked then, was if it would be possible to add Git-Bash as …
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When you work with Azure (DevOps) Pipelines and use Azure Repos (Git) in combination with Git submodules, then there are a few things that you need to take into account if you want to use those submodules in your build pipeline(s) an if you want those pipelines to successfully 😉 I'm writing this here because we have …
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If you are in an enterprise context where you work with .net development teams, the chances are real that they use a "Visual studio license" and that this license is managed in what is called an "Enterprise Agreement". This agreement allows organizations to buy "Visual Studio Licenses" …
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In previous posts, I wrote about migrating builds to TeamCity and after that back to Azure DevOps . Next to that, I talked about "setting up an Enterprise Cake build framework" and getting Cake to work in Azure DevOps (artifacts) to make those migrations easier in an enterprise context, where a lot of build …
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My last few posts have been about Cake build and Azure DevOps and in this post I will again talk about those 2. This time I will talk about running Cake in an Azure Pipeline and having it work with Azure Artifacts . What? Azure Artifacts Azure Artifacts can be seen as a private repository for your reusable assets …
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Last week I wrote about two related topics that can be seen as a basis for this post: (1) Cake in the enterprise which is about building your enterprise applications with Cake (at scale) and what you need to do to make it manageable and (2) Migrating your builds to Azure DevOps pipelines which is about migrating …
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A few weeks ago, I wrote how we migrated our build system towards TeamCity (this migration was a few years ago). If you want to know more on how we did this, then I gladly refer you to this post Today, I'm writing about the migration back to Azure DevOps. I'll explain the reasoning behind why we move back and what we …
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For a few years now, I have been willing to write about this and I never really took the time. I spoke about it in a session during Visug XL 2019 and at that time, we were only getting started with Cake. Today, 1.5 years later, we have a set up a stable (unit test supported) build process that supports multiple …
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I'm in the process om migrating a whole bunch of builds from TeamCity to Azure DevOps and the entire process is automated. (I'm writing a blogpost on this, stay tuned if you are interested in this). Today, one of the builds that I'm migrating, gave me an error when I did a test. It struck me a bit as "a strange …
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A few years ago, we migrated all our builds out of practical considerations from (at the time) TFS to JetBrains TeamCity. The main reason for us was that the support for XAML based builds in TFS was about to end... The main advantage for us, when using those XAML templates was the (rather) extensive templating support. …
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I've been wanting to write this post for a while (a few years) now and I never took the time. At some point I just thought that it wasn't relevant anymore, but since I'm working on a project in a similar context and I feel that the need still does exist, I could not refrain myself and write this thing down. If you …
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Today, a colleague contacted me with an issue that he encountered during one of his builds: The problem lies with something legacy that we try not to use anymore wherever possible, but in this case, there seems to be an exception. In Azure DevOps, the default for version control was once (actually not that long …
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Do you know the feeling when you have a lot of VS Code editors open, each pointing to its own folder, where you need to do a lot of context switching? There are several ways to find the correct VSCode window: Alt-Tab Hovering over the VS code icon in the windows taskbar ... In both cases, you have to 'hope' that you …
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For those what it means to install RabbitMQ for local development, it typically means that you have to go through the pain of installing erlang and RabbitMQ , only to discover that something is wrong with your setup. (To given an example: the RabbitMQ management plugin is not installed by default, requiring you to do …
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From time to time it happens that you install a sql server (or SQL express) and that you forget to assign local admin permissions. When this happens, you can choose to do a reinstallation... or you can try to assign the permissions after all through a backdoor. I chose the latter! Open a cmd prompt (as admin) {% …
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