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). […]

TextTransform issues after VS Project Upgrade

Recently I moved one of my projects from Visual Studio 2012 to Visual Studio 2015. Considering the project type, I was hoping for a smooth upgrade. However that was not the case. Once I tried building my solution I started getting the following error: The command “”C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TextTemplating\14.0\TextTransform.exe”” -out “bin\LinkSet.xml” “App_Data\LinkSet.tt”” exited […]