Continuous Deployment on Visual Studio Team Services for .NET Core Applications
This post is going to talk about continuous deployment on Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for .NET Core applications. With VSTS, we can manage projects, codes, builds, tests, and releases. However, it doesn’t fully support .NET Core applications at the time of this writing. More specifically, all necessary environment has been ready but the official build steps by Microsoft are not ready. Therefore, we’re writing our own PowerShell scripts for both continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD), and integrate them with VSTS build/release pipelines.… [Keep reading] “Continuous Deployment on Visual Studio Team Services for .NET Core Applications”
Why you should use Git over TFS
I have been an advocate of git for long time now and I might be biased a little bit, but take a moment to read this and judge for yourself whether git is the way to go or not.
If you are starting a new greenfield project, then you should consider putting your code on a git repository instead of TFS. There are many reasons why git is better suited, but the two main ones in my perspective are:
Cross-Platform Support
Git tools are available for all platforms and there are many great (and FREE) GUI tools like GitExtensions or SourceTree.… [Keep reading] “Why you should use Git over TFS”
Release Management Architecture in Visual Studio Online with vNext Environments
Release Management – The Background
Release Management Service in Visual Studio Online (referred as RM-VSO in the rest of this blog post) automates the process of deploying the builds into the target environments. It integrates nicely with the Team Build Service in VSO and both the services can work together to implement a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. The on-premises version of Release Management has been around for a couple of years, however the Visual Studio Online version has just been recently released, in November 2014, and somewhat different than the on-premises version.… [Keep reading] “Release Management Architecture in Visual Studio Online with vNext Environments”