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About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Access the IIS metabase

Posted on February 18, 2014 by erictummers

For quality purposes we add a new person to our project. The problems found will be documented for future reference. Here is the first problem. Opening the solution in visual studio would not load the web project. In the output … Continue reading →

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Request feedback from visualstudio online

Posted on February 17, 2014 by erictummers

From visual studio online you can request feedback on your application. I’ve played with it and it looks promising. Not sure if the stakeholder would open the email or install software requested in an email. But if they do this … Continue reading →

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Week roundup

Posted on February 14, 2014 by erictummers

Here are the best articles I’ve read/seen last week: Customization and configuration in VS ALM sums up what you can tweak in the Microsoft toolkit for your company. Getting your code reviewed by a team member is part of Team … Continue reading →

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Run Selenium from visualstudio.com

Posted on February 12, 2014 by erictummers

You can host your project in Visualstudio.com and still run selenium tests in the build. The hosted build controller does not support it (details) and cannot be adjusted. Why not create your own Build Controller in Azure VM? Here is … Continue reading →

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Execute xunit tests on hosted build controller

Posted on February 11, 2014 by erictummers

You can use xunit to unit test on the hosted build controller by installing the xunit.runner.visualstudio package. But when the Build is done, there was an error. The testrunner tries to discover the unittests in xunit.runner.visualstudio.testadapter.dll. Why? Because it matches … Continue reading →

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