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
Category: VSTS
Tips and Tricks: TFS Excel Plugin not loading
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
Using Office UI Fabric to create a VSTS Extension
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
Containers on Azure as part of a CI/CD pipeline
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
Deploy Docker images to a Private Azure Container Registry
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
VSTS Extension Work Item Limits
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
Upload Custom Build Tasks On-prem TFS 2015 Update 2
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
Application Insights and TypeScript
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
Intro to VS Team Services Extensions
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