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Tips and Tricks: User has Allow Delete work items, but no delete button on work item

4th Dec 2017 Niel Zeeman

Problem: The user in TFS/VSTS has all the rights enabled to delete work items. The problem is that when you open the work items the “Delete” button is missing, and you do not have the option to delete in query… Read more

Posted in TFS, Tips&Tricks, VSTS2 Comments

Tips and Tricks: TFS Excel Plugin not loading

27th Nov 2017 Niel Zeeman

Problem: Close an Excel spreadsheet with/or without having a TFS/VSTS connected list. When you open the spreadsheet again, the Team tab is missing in the ribbon bar. You then need to go through and re-enable the plugin through Excel options… Read more

Posted in TFS, Tips&Tricks, VSTS1 Comment

Using Office UI Fabric to create a VSTS Extension

6th Nov 2017 Niel Zeeman

In the beginning In the beginning god wanted to make earth. So, god found a cool looking bootstrapper and loaded up his favorite command line.God then stepped through and downloaded all 100’s of packages to be able to run the… Read more

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Containers on Azure as part of a CI/CD pipeline

5th Nov 2017 Niel Zeeman

In my previous posts I was speaking about the journey to go from setting up a container and ultimately publishing it in a continuous fashion to a registry using VSTS. You may have noticed that a lot of time has… Read more

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Deploy Docker images to a Private Azure Container Registry

30th Jan 201716th Oct 2019 Niel Zeeman

This post continues the journey of creating a dotnet application, containerizing and ultimately deploying the image to production. The first thing we need to do is to get the source into a source repository (I’m of course going to use… Read more

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VSTS Extension Work Item Limits

14th Sep 2016 Niel Zeeman

An error was recently pointed out on one of the extension that I’ve been working on as part of the ALM Rangers. Looking at the browser logs we noticed something like this:“An undefined error occurred while attempting to connect to… Read more

Posted in ALM Rangers, Extensions, TypeScript, VSTS2 Comments

Upload Custom Build Tasks On-prem TFS 2015 Update 2

13th Apr 2016 Niel Zeeman

One of the great features that TFS 2015 Update 2 brings to the party is the ability to add extensions and custom build tasks. I was sorely missing the SQL dacpac deployment task that has been available on VSTS for… Read more

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Application Insights and TypeScript

17th Feb 201612th Oct 2019 Niel Zeeman

I’m actively involved in creating extensions on VSTS and one of the questions that comes up a lot is on Telemetry. Are people using the extensions, how are they using it and what about errors and exceptions? It has become… Read more

Posted in Application Insights, Development, TypeScript, VSTS1 Comment

Intro to VS Team Services Extensions

10th Feb 2016 Niel Zeeman

Over the last couple of months I have been quite busy with various VSTS extension as part of the ALM Rangers. You can see some of the extensions that I have developed here and here, and I am currently involved with at… Read more

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Team Foundation Consulting was established in 2010 by Niel Zeeman. Niel is a Technology Specialist who helps clients improve their ALM and DevOps process through enhanced use of Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Azure DevOps, and by refining and automation of their systems, processes and methodologies.

Niel is a Visual Studio ALM/DevOps Ranger and a Microsoft ALM MVP since 2016.

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  • Tips and Tricks: User has Allow Delete work items, but no delete button on work item
  • Tips and Tricks: TFS Excel Plugin not loading
  • Using Office UI Fabric to create a VSTS Extension
  • Containers on Azure as part of a CI/CD pipeline
  • Deploy Docker images to a Private Azure Container Registry
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