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Build Blues with .Net Standard 2.0

October 24, 2017October 24, 2017 Geoff Hudik

Recently I updated a UWP app to target Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and .NET Standard 2.0. That enabled updating of several NuGet packages with a NET Standard 2.0 dependency. While there were some breaking changes with those updates, everything compiled and ran in Visual Studio without too much effort. The Build Server Says Your…

PowerShell Visual Studio Related Tasks

August 10, 2017August 11, 2017 Geoff Hudik

Building on my time with PowerShellGet and Git from PowerShell, I wanted additional script functionality to do more than just version control operations on my .NET app’s codebase. This included things like building the solution, running unit tests, launching Visual Studio, and cleaning up binary output (bin, obj, packages). Launching Visual Studio Solutions Starting off…

Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging

May 8, 2012June 19, 2017 Geoff Hudik

Series Index Build Automation Part 1: Overview and Pre-build Tasks Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging Build Automation Part 3: App Deployment Script Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments In the last post in this series I discussed an overview of some build and deployment automation goals and covered some pre-build activities.…

Build Automation Part 1: Overview and Pre-build Tasks

May 5, 2012June 19, 2017 Geoff Hudik

Series Index Build Automation Part 1: Overview and Pre-build Tasks Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging Build Automation Part 3: App Deployment Script Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments A recent major application release at work required various changes to our build and deployment process. Our continuous integration process was created probably…