January 2016 – DOTNET CATCH – Blogging .NET, C# and DevOps topics.

WebDeploy Parameterization Tip: Disable automatic ConnectionString parameterization

January 26, 2016 October 20, 2016 / Uncategorized / 2 Comments

By default WebDeploy parameterizes all the ConnectionStrings in the web.config for a project. This always confuses developers when they are first converting over to parameterization from config transforms. You can open the resulting MSDeploy package zip file and the parameters.xml file to find parameter entries for each of your connections string with the name: [connection …

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Review: VSTS Release Management vNext

January 20, 2016 January 20, 2016 / Uncategorized / 1 Comment

I have had the incredible opportunity to work with Microsoft employees and contractors over the last 8 weeks on an evaluation of Release Management (RA) vNext and attend the 2015 Connect() conference in New York. So I wanted to share some of my opinions on VSTS, RA and Microsoft direction for other’s benefit. Background We …

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WebDeploy Parameterization Tip: Rewrite it!

January 20, 2016 January 20, 2016 / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

From time to time a developer will ask for help with Parameterization where they just can’t seem to get it working for some specific scenario. Often this is just an XPath bug or fat finger issue. In two seperate instances now simply deleting the existing parameter node in the parameters.xml and recreating it solves the …

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Faster feeback loop for parameterization

January 6, 2016 May 14, 2016 / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

These days one of the things I focus on most is the feedback loop for the teams I work with and support. In the past we just lived with the fact some code couldn’t be tested or tested easily and would waste untold hours in all the ceremony of deploying it out to a server …

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Month: January 2016