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Enhanced Mobile App Versioning in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Mobile Tasks

A little over a year ago, I introduced my Mobile App Tasks Extensions for iOS and Android into the Azure DevOps (VSTS) marketplace. For iOS and Android developers it made the tasks of versioning and adjusting package names a breeze. They were written completely in TypeScript with VS Code and of course are open source on GitHub. Since the initial release I have received overall positive feedback and a few feature requests to add new features. Over the last year I teamed up with my good friend And…

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Continuous Integration & Delivery for Xamarin & .NET Libraries with Azure DevOps (VSTS)

I build a lot of .NET libraries that include simple .NET Standard libraries to fully cross-platform plugins for Xamarin and Windows that target up to 10 different platforms. When I got started building libraries and shipping them to NuGet I went down a simple path of just building everything locally on my machine and manually uploading them to NuGet. This worked great for a single library, but as soon as I took on a second... third... forth... and so on, things got out of hand and I knew I had t…

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Building Xamarin.Android Apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Hosted Agents!

I recently wrote about how to build any Xamarin.iOS application inside of Visual Studio Team Services using Hosted macOS Agents for free! I have updated the guide a little bit if you are leveraging .NET Standard libraries to ensure that you build with MSBuild, which is pretty important seeing that all of the new templates will soon use these. That had me thinking "I wonder if there are any small tweaks that are needed for Xamarin.Android when building on the Hosted Agents?"... Which le…

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Building Azure DevOps (VSTS) Tasks with TypeScript and VS Code

Over the last few years I have fallen in love with Azure DevOps (VSTS) for handling all of my application and backend continuous integration, deployment, and release management. Each of these services offer a task based build and release definition that enable you to easily start automating anything. There are a ton of built in tasks, and a whole marketplace where you can install them into your Azure DevOps (VSTS) project. At some point though, you may need to do something custom that isn't a ta…

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Introducing Azure DevOps (VSTS) Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android

This year I have made a big push towards making Visual Studio Team Services my new continuous everything for my mobile apps, libraries, and any other project that I work on. While Azure DevOps (VSTS) has a lot of built in tasks for mobile applications, there are still a few essential things missing that would really make it a joy to use. The top that stuck out was having the ability to easily bump the version/build numbers for iOS and Android. The other was to change the app's label and package…

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Building Xamarin.iOS Apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Hosted macOS Agents!

Azure DevOps (VSTS) is quickly becoming one of my favorite products that Microsoft creates for developers. It helps any developer writing apps in any language build, test, and deploy their applications. On top of that it has free unlimited private Git repos, work item tracking and kanban board, test, release management, and so much more! What is cool is you can use some of it or all of it, up to you. So if you have your code in GitHub, no problem, want to use Trello, no problem, because they all…

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Using Visual Studio Mobile Center with a Azure DevOps (VSTS) Code Repo

So, this is pretty awesome! Today, the Mobile Center team rolled out a huge update to Visual Studio Mobile Center enabling you to build your iOS and Android apps in the cloud from any GitHub, BitBucket, or Azure DevOps (VSTS) code repository! This is great because VSTS offers FREE unlimited private repos for your code with a git backend. Mobile Center offers up build, test, distribute, analytics, and backend services for any mobile app written in any language. It couldn’t be easier to get starte…

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Deploying an ASP.NET Core app to Linux on Azure App Service

You probably wouldn’t expect this blog post from me as I run away from building any web apps, but I have been messing around with ASP.NET Core inside of Visual Studio for Mac. I thought it would be really cool to take our default app for items and deploy it to an Azure Linux based App Service. Because… why not?!?! Also, I will make Hanselman proud. So, first things first.. The backend. My Items on ASP.NET CoreIf you head over to your Visual Studio for Mac you will see a “Connected App” te…

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Enhanced Mobile App Versioning in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Mobile Tasks

Continuous Integration & Delivery for Xamarin & .NET Libraries with Azure DevOps (VSTS)

Building Xamarin.Android Apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Hosted Agents!

Building Azure DevOps (VSTS) Tasks with TypeScript and VS Code

Introducing Azure DevOps (VSTS) Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android

Building Xamarin.iOS Apps in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Hosted macOS Agents!

Using Visual Studio Mobile Center with a Azure DevOps (VSTS) Code Repo

Deploying an ASP.NET Core app to Linux on Azure App Service

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