JavaScript, Date and ISO 8601 part4 20 April 2018 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) JavaScript, Project, Web Her: How does your perfect date look like?Me: Well the only format I can accept is `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm [More]
Totally automated Team Foundation 2017 build agent setup 28 March 2018 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) ALM, Project, Tools, VisualStudio, Build First of all set the default TLS Version for .net to 1.2: With Chocolatey a lot of things are easy to set up:Visual Studio 2017 CommunityWindows Installer XML ToolsetVisual Studio CodeGitVersionNodeJsPython2Remote Server Administration ToolsNow let's modify visual studio and add some components, ... [More]
Remote Debugging Chrome on Android with Windows 17 February 2018 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Web, Productivity, Android I’m an IPhone user. I like the device. I’m not a fanboy. I’m curious. So I got myself an HUAWEI P smart with Android Oreo (Version 8).1. Lets set up developer mode by following the android studio guide…Open the Settings appSelect System (only on Android 8.0 or higher) Scroll to the bottom and select... [More]
W3C Server Timing Header and API 17 February 2018 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) JavaScript, Productivity, Tools, Web, WebServices I used custom headers in the past to send some metrics over to the client–mostly for debugging purposes to quickly differentiate between client and server issues on slow web request and/or web application performance.While that was working out pretty well I like standards and even if I did not tell ... [More]
Scheduled task to automatically delete Fiddler HTTPS interception certificates 16 February 2018 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) Security, PowerShell, Web I really like Fiddler, the web debugger. I like TLS. I develop software. Therefore I find the interception and decryption of secure traffic very useful.On the other hand I’m into security for a few years now and from that perspective it is a man in the middle attack. So you might want to allow this ... [More]
Register a file icon in Visual Studio 2017 09 February 2018 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) VisualStudio, Tools, VSIX 1. Add an Icon as resource2. Add an imagemanifest3. Add a package definition4. Add the assets to the visual studio extensibility manifest 6. Compile the extension, Install it, and add a file with the extension to a new project.Done
Swallow GIT output in PowerShell run by Team Foundation Server because it’s STDERR which breaks the build 05 February 2018 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) ALM Imagine you want to commit and push a changed file during a build. Grant the user “Project Collection Build Service (DefaultCollection)” the following permissions on the repository:ContributeReadEnable the option “Allow scripts to access OAuth token” on the build.Set the variable “system.prefergit” ... [More]
Builds with conditional NuGet publishing in Team Foundation Server 02 January 2018 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) ALM, Build, Productivity, VisualStudio For a nightly build it makes no sense to publish a NuGet package as no code changed and therefore the same GitVersion is calculated.Since version 2017 Update 3 the on premise version of Microsoft's Team Foundation Server supports "Custom Conditions" on "Build Tasks" – but sadly not on "Task Groups".... [More]
Using the Windows Credential Manager from MsBuild 21 September 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) ALM, Build, Security Today I needed to make a web service call with authentication from MsBuild. Of course storing the credentials in plain text is not an option.The Windows Credential Manager User Interface can be opened by running the command:control /name Microsoft.CredentialManagerThere is also a command line interf... [More]
Get latest MSBuild on x64 with Powershell 14 August 2017 Daniel-Fisher-(lennybacon) ALM, PowerShell, Build Today I wrote this very very easy script to determine the latest MsBuild file path on a x64 machine: