Hosting Jekyll website on Azure Static WebApps
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on May 25, 2020
Now that Azure now has a free service for hosting static web apps via Azure Static Web Apps, I decided to write a quick post on how to host Jekyll website on Azure Static WebApps. To my surprise it turned out to be quite simple and easy to host.
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Azure DevOps workitems don't show frequently used users? Here's how to fix it.
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on May 25, 2020
Ever had an issue where you are just got access to the client Azure DevOps instance, but for some strange reason you find that workitems are unable to populate recently used users, even after you searched for them previously? In this post, we will see what causes it and how to fix it.
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Plan your cloud migration with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure DevOps
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on May 17, 2020
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure is a detailed guidance of patterns and practices to create and implement business and technology strategies necessary for organisations to move to the cloud. According to Microsoft, this guidance is adopted from various customers learnings from moving to cloud and Microsoft itself.
In this post, we will see CAF’s starter template in Azure DevOps Demo generator helps customers Plan their cloud journey.
EAI_AGAIN error in bash when using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on May 5, 2020
Lately I am hooked to WSL and have been using bash as my main terminal. It has auto complete, allows me to connect to my Raspberry PI and it just feels nice. However, I recently hit an issue where in I was not able to run any npm commands in zsh shell. Every time I ran any npm command I received error saying getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN registry.npmjs.org. In this short post, I would like to show how I solved it.
Publish VSCode extension using GitHub Actions
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on Apr 14, 2020
GitHub Actions allow you to build complex workflows to automate your build and deployment processes. Built on top of Azure Pipelines, Actions allow you to maintain your workflows along with your code. In this post, we will see how we can implement CICD flow for a sample Visual Studio Code extension to deploy it to Visual Studio Marketplace.
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Patch files using GitHub Actions
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on Apr 6, 2020
Recently I have been spending more time with GitHub Actions. If you don’t know already, GitHub actions allow you to orchestrate workflow (CI/CD) based on events like push, pull-request etc. Not only you can use actions available in the GitHub Marketplace, you also build your own. I wanted to experiment, how easy it is to develop one. So I just did that and built an custom action.
VSIX Viewer - A Visual Studio Code extension to view contents of VSIX files
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on Jan 5, 2020
Do you develop Visual Studio Marketplace Extensions? Then you might already be aware of VSIX file types. VSIX file types are basically zip files with additional metadata to extend various Microsoft products like Visual Studio, VSCode and Azure DevOps. I wanted a way to quickly view contents of VSIX file without leaving the VSCOde editor. So I decided to write an extension for VSCode to quickly view the VSIX contents. This post highlights features of the extension and way I have setup CICD for automatic publishing to VSMarketplace.
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Azure DevOps Server Cookbook 2019 for $10 all of september!
Tarun Arora
on Sep 8, 2019
I thought I should let you know that Packt Publishing, the company behind the publication of the Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook, is running a juicy promotion this month… From 2nd September to 30th September all ebooks and videos on the Packt website are $10 a pop.
Read moreBoom! Every eBook & video for $10 across the site from the 2nd-30th September.
How to build your .NET projects targeting latest version of C#
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on Aug 3, 2019
Recently our development team decided to use C# 7.1 language features. However our builds on Azure DevOps started failing quickly. In this quick post we will see how to build your solution targeting the latest version of C# on Azure DevOps.
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Perfecting Continuous Delivery of NuGet packages for Azure Artifacts
Utkarsh Shigihalli
on Jun 18, 2019
In order to release software often and consistently, it is essential that software dependencies are managed using a good package management solution. Managing dependencies, if not planned well, can over a period of time become extremely difficult to maintain - especially due to difficulty in managing versions, testing of the packages and nested dependencies. With the increased focus from organizations to break monolithic applications into micro-services, teams have started to break their hard dependencies into manageable packages (NuGet, npm and others.)
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