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I have just released a new version of my VSTS Manifest Version Extension (1.5.22). This adds two new tasks to the set of versioning tasks in the extension. The complete set now is VersionAssemblies - sets the version in the assemblyinfo.cs or .vb (used pre build) VersionDotNetCoreAssemblies - sets the version in the *.csproj (used pre build) - cross platform VersionAPPX - sets the version in the Package.appxmanifest (used pre build) VersionVSIX - sets the version in the source....

Background If you are creating VSTS build extensions you will need to get the build or release’s PAT token if you wish to call the VSTS REST API. This is done using a call like this (Node) import tl = require('vsts-task-lib/task'); var auth = tl.getEndpointAuthorization('SYSTEMVSSCONNECTION', false); if (auth.scheme === 'OAuth') { var token = auth.parameters\['AccessToken'\]; or (PowerShell) $vssEndPoint = Get-ServiceEndPoint -Name "SystemVssConnection" -Context $distributedTaskContext $personalAccessToken = $vssEndpoint.Authorization.Parameters.AccessToken You pop the resultant PAT into the headers of your REST web request and you are away and running....

Rik Hepworth and myself have been doing our ‘Living the Dream – Real world DevOps with VSTS and ARM’ at a good few events over the past few months. We now, at last, have a recording of a version of it up on Black Marble YouTube Channel’s DevOps Playlist Enjoy….

There are still spaces available at the Black Marble hosted venue for the Global DevOps Bootcamp on the 17th of June If you are interested register here

Do you find your TFS server gets forgotten? It is not owned by the IT department and the Development team don’t have the time to support it fully, it never gets patched or upgrades? Or maybe you are adopting a cloud first strategy for all you systems? Well maybe it is time to consider moving your on-premises TFS instance to VSTS? On the 9th of May at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Leeds I will be presenting at a Black Marble /Microsoft event where we will be looking at Microsoft’s new high fidelity VSTS database import tools that can be used to move a TFS instance to VSTS....