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Matt's ALM space: November 2016

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Articles and thoughts from an italian Visual Studio ALM MVP. Monday, 28 November 2016. Review – Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0. NET Core brings so many changes, even if you don’t write production code on a daily basis you might want to have a refresh. And that’s what I did with Christian Nagel’s. It is very well flowing and never too near a knowledge base article – Christian writes very well. The content in there is for Visual Studio 2015, but you can definitely use it with 2017 as well. Mentions Ap...

Matt's ALM space: December 2016

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Articles and thoughts from an italian Visual Studio ALM MVP. Monday, 19 December 2016. Use the SonarQube Scanner with the new activity for the Team Build. The new SonarSource-maintained activity allows for the SonarQube scanner to be run independently of MSBuild – very useful for repositories containing only JavaScript files for example, where you cannot use the MSBuild-based task because of the lack of a .*proj file. So all you need to do is to add the relevant task to your build definition:. Now the ex...

Matt's ALM space: Start building ASP.NET Core 1.1 with TFS

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Articles and thoughts from an italian Visual Studio ALM MVP. Sunday, 20 November 2016. Start building ASP.NET Core 1.1 with TFS. In my spare time I am looking at ASP.NET Core – it brings so much change that you can’t really ignore it even if you are not a web developer. After putting together the first samples (thanks to the help of a book as well, review coming in a few weeks) I wanted to build something in my lab with a TFS build, so totally on-premise and with no connection to the shiny VSTS. As I am ...

Matt's ALM space: The new connected extension installation experience in TFS 2017

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Articles and thoughts from an italian Visual Studio ALM MVP. Tuesday, 13 December 2016. The new connected extension installation experience in TFS 2017. A few months ago I blogged. About how the Marketplace takes advantage of the shared TFS and VSTS architecture to provide a good experience to the administrator when it comes to Extensions. Now the experience goes from good to excellent with TFS 2017. Attribute in the query string. This is also an excellent example of a good experience in a context of a.

Matt's ALM space: April 2016

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Articles and thoughts from an italian Visual Studio ALM MVP. Friday, 22 April 2016. A look at the new Work Item Tracking features in VSTS. I usually don’t do this, but the VSTS teams are overhauling this area at such a pace that makes a knowledge refresh really needed. Aside from the cards layout a few months ago, there are really compelling features added to the platform. It isn’t easy to define what. Is for WIT, as it is much of user interaction scenarios more than pure technical stuff doing. Considera...