Publish VSCode extension to VS Marketplace using simplified ChatOps

Utkarsh Shigihalli on Aug 11, 2020

I have previously blogged about publishing VSCode extensions to VSMarketplace (using GitHub actions). However, that workflow relied heavily on the branching strategy and was on assumption that anything that is merged to master is ready for publishing to VSMarketplace. It worked great, but occasionally I felt the need to test the extension from master and I wanted a way to approve before I decide to publish to marketplace. In this post we will see how I used ChatOps with the help of GitHub actions and Issues to achieve the same.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Boom! 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.