I wanted to add some level of static analysis to our Typescript projects, TSLint being the obvious choice. To make sure it got run as part of our build release process I wanted to wire it into our SonarQube system, this meant using the community TSLintPlugin, which is still pre-release (0.6 preview at the time of writing). I followed the installation process for plugin without any problems setting the TSLint path to match our build boxes...

I thought I had a problem with our TFS Lab Manager setup, 80% of our environments had disappeared. I wondered if it was rights, was it just showing environments I owned? No it was not that. Turns our the issue was a UX/Scrollbar issue. I had MTM full screen in ‘Test Center’ mode, with a long list of test suites, so long a scroll bar was needed and I had scrolled to the bottom of the list...

Background I am finding myself writing a lot of PowerShell at present, mostly for VSTS build extensions. Here I hit a problem (or is it an opportunity for choice?) as to what development environment to use? PowerShell ISE is the ‘best’ experience for debugging a script, but has no source control integration – and it is on all PCs Visual Studio Code has good Git support, but you need to jump through some hoops to get debugging working....

This is a copy of the guest post done on the Microsoft UK web site published on the 7th June 2016 This is a revised version of a post originally published in August 2014. In this revision I have updated version numbers and links for tools used and added a discussion of adapting the process to support VSTS. The code for this post can be found in my GitHub Repo...

Microsoft asked my to revise my August 2014 article on ‘Migrating a TFS TFVC team project to a Git team project’, this revised version is now live on their web site. The changes in the revision are updated links for tools, and information on how to use the technique with VSTS now some work item customisation is available.