You can use the filePath type in a vNext VSTS/TFS task as shown below { "name": "settingsFile", "type": "filePath", "label": "Settings File", "defaultValue": "", "required": false, "helpMarkDown": "Path to single settings files to use (as opposed to files in project folders)", "groupName":"advanced" } to present a file picker dialog in the build editor that allows the build editor to pick a file or folder in the build’s source repository While doing some task development recently I found that this control did not behave as I had expected...

Updated 22 Mar 2016 This tasks is available in the VSTS Marketplace I have previously posted on how a PowerShell script can be used to run StyleCop as part of vNext VSTS/TFS build. Now I have more experience with vNext tasks it seemed a good time to convert this PowerShell script into a true task that can deploy StyleCop and making it far easier to expose the various parameters StyleCop allows....

Update 6 Feb 2016 - I have made some major changes to this task to expose more parameters, have a look at this post that details the newer version Today a good way to pull together all your measures of code quality is to run SonarQube within your automated build; in a .NET world this can show changes in quality over time for tools such as FxCop (Code Analysis) and StyleCop....

There have been some requests for more information about the areas I convered in my presentation at the Black Marble Tech Update 2016 that we held last week. I could send out slides, but I think it is far more useful to point you at the ‘live’ resource on the Internet. The key reason for this is that the whole of the Visual Studio family is now being released at a ‘cloud cadence’ i....

As I discovered during my BlogEngine upgrade, there is an effort within the project team to focus the codebase on three possible usage models on any given BlogEngine server instance: Single blog with a user – a personal blog (default) Single blog with many users – a team/company blog Many blogs each with a single user – a set of related blogs that can be agregated togther I needed the third option, problem was in its history our blog has been both of the other two types, so I have multiple user accounts for each blogs, and login usernames are repeated between individual blogs on the server....