Building Visual Studio projects with DevEnv.com

Introduction This post is about my most successful Azure DevOps extension. Before I tell you more about the newest version, let me tell you something more about the history of it. Several years ago, just after the TFS 2015 was released, this was one of the first build tasks I built. I had a team […]

Deploy SSIS packages from TFS/VSTS Build/Release

Automating BI projects, based on Microsoft tooling, was always a bit painful. Personally, all of the things shipped with SSDT seemed a bit unloved from a Microsoft side. What I would like to show you in this post is how I managed to automate the build and deployment of my Integration Services Projects (.dtproj type). […]

Using global application host file in Visual Studio 2015+

In moving one of the projects from VS2013 to VS2015 I realized that IISExpress settings specified in the users applicationhost.config file got overridden. After a quick search, it came to me that another applicationhost.config file was created by the VS2015 and placed in the .vs/config folder under the root of my project. This is, however, […]