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. Surround with Select code that block t…Read More »Visual Studio Tips and Tricks
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…Read More »Azure DevOps Pricing
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 providin…Read More »Infrastructure as Code with Azure DevOps and 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 automati…Read More »Automatically create work items from Application Insights exceptions
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…Read More »Create Azure DevOps Work items directly from Application Insights
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…Read More »Speed up WordPress site with Azure CDN
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 reas…Read More »Work Item Migration
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 sho…Read More »Azure DevOps Boards
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…Read More »Work Item Types
Work items are way to track work progress in Azure DevOps. They tell you what the team is currently working on, what is finished and what job is still to do. That’s it. OK in real world it is not that easy, because you h…Read More »Work Item State
Today I was setting up a self-hosted agent, that could run Robot framework tests. I wanted the agent to run robot tests and push results into Azure DevOps as a test result of release run. First my releases returned weird…Read More »Read Robot Framework test results into Azure DevOps
Today I listened a great podcast episode Episode 400: Michaela Greiler on Code Reviews, where Michaela Greiler talks about how to do great code reviews. I have to say, that I love this topic and the tips Michaela gives a…Read More »How to Do Great Code Reviews