My VSTS Agent fails to start when configured as a service 02 September 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (3) In this post I show you how to run a VSTS agent as a service with a user account. [More]
Control the name of your .NET Core output 29 August 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (3) In this post I teach you how to take control of the name of your .NET Core output. [More]
Stop wasting time during .NET Core builds 28 August 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (14) In this post I show you how to disable the populating of the local package cache of .NET Core builds. [More]
Enabling jshint es6 support in VS Code 19 August 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (22) In this post I show you how to enable es6 support for JSHint in Visual Studio Code. [More]
How to change the language mode of an unsaved file in VS Code 18 August 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (6) In this post I show you how to change the language mode of Visual Studio Code. [More]
How to find the Hash for RemotePayloads of WIX projects 13 August 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (0) In this post I teach you how to find the Hash for the RemotePayload element of your WSX. [More]
Configure CI with GitHub and Team Services 16 July 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (5) In this post I show you how to setup CI for GitHub and Team Services. [More]
Visual Studio Team Services Task Data Types 26 June 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (0) I was recently working on a new task for Trackyon Advantage and wanted to have an input field for a number. When you define your task in the task.json file you have different types you can assign to each input field. Below is a list of all the types I could find and examples on how to define them and the resulting UI. filePath { "type": "filePath", "defaultValue": "pom.xml" } artifactPath boolean { "type": "boolean", "defaultValue": "true" } azureConnection connectedService Custom AzureRM { "type": "connectedService:AzureRM", "defaultValue": "" } AzureClassic { "type": "connectedService:Azure:Certificate,UsernamePassword", "defaultValue": "" } { "type": "connectedService:Azure" "defaultValue": "" } Generic { "type": "connectedService:Generic" } GitHub radio { "type": "radio", "defaultValue": "JDKVersion", "options": { "JDKVersion": "JDK Version", "Path": "Path" } } pickList { "type": "pickList", "defaultValue": "None", "options": { "None": "None", "Cobertura": "Cobertura", "JaCoCo": "JaCoCo" } } multiLine { "type": "multiLine", "defaultValue": "" } stringList string { "type": "string", "defaultValue": "" }
How to correct Null Reference Exception when using HttpClient with Xamarin and iOS 18 June 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (2) In this post I show you how to correct the Null Reference exception when using Xamarin, and HttpClient on iOS. [More]
Adding HockeyApp to Xamarin project breaks my build 17 June 2016 Donovan-Brown Work (0) In this post I show you how to correct the build errors when adding the HockeyApp package to a Xamarin project. [More]