Elgato Stream Deck is a fancy USB device that can be used to control lights, OBS and many other things. It has wide range of plugins, which can be installed easily from Stream Deck Store. Currently the plugin store does not contain any plugins to use AzureDevOps, so of course I had to fix this shortcoming.
The Stream Deck has plugin SDK’s for multiple …
I have been using Visual Studio over a decade almost daily and I would like to share few tips that I find particularly useful and which improves your productivity if used correctly.
Select code that block that you would like to surround with and then press CTLR+K, CTRL+S. This starts and macro that can used to surround blocks of code with try-catch, using, etc. I use this …
Azure DevOps pricing can feel a bit confusing, but the pricing model is surprisingly easy to understand and the Azure DevOps is actually very cheap to use compared to another CI/CD systems. Pricing is based on the number of users and the extra services that are bought. First five (5) users are FREE. After that every new user costs 5.06€ per month, unless you are adding stakeholder OR invited …
Bicep is a language for declaratively deploying Azure resources. You can use Bicep instead of JSON for developing your Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates). Bicep simplifies the developing process by providing shorter syntax and really nice intellisense support for Visual Studio Code.
Bicep is based on “.bicep” files that are written with Visual Studio Code (or any other text editor, but I recommend to use the Code). If Bicep …
In the last blog post we looked how we can manually create work items into Azure DevOps from Application Insights. Manual labor is something that we want to avoid in DevOps world, so let’s take a look how we can automatically create bug type of work item into Azure DevOps when error is detected in Application Insights. The guide seems quite long, but actually you can do it in 15 …
Application Insights can be integrated into Azure DevOps, so that developers can create bug work items directly from Application Insights without copy-pasting any of the exception details.
First we need to integrate our Application Insights instance with our DevOps instance. This is done through Azure Portal Application Insights settings Work Items
URL is the root url of your Azure DevOps project. For example https://dev.azure.com/OrganizationX
Project of course defines where the …
Azure CDN is relatively new service (GA release was near the end of 2018) that allows users to share their static web site content globally, so that the site resources are close to web site users. CDN lifts network usage from the web server, which helps to scale the service. Like many other Azure services, the CDN pricing is based on usage and does not contain any upfront costs.
Every now and then I’m asked to do a Work Item migration from one Azure DevOps organization (or project) to another and as it is not that rare case anymore, it is still surprisingly hard to do and there are few good reasons why.
The most common problem with migration is that, the source data is not integrated. It has lots of special cases and edges that …
Boards is the joining force of the Azure DevOps work items. It contains four different views for work items (well five if you count queries) and they are all suitable for different purposes. In this post I’m going to show you the main differences between work items, boards, backlogs and sprint views.
On top of the menu is Work Items. Work items view is good for finding …
Azure DevOps has multiple ready made work item types, and they are usually more than enough to run normal agile software development. In this post I will cover what are the regular work item types and how they should be used.
By default Azure DevOps has four tiers of work items: Epic, Feature, User Story and Task/Bug. Bug can be configured to be in User Story level or in …