Tag: Source control

  • Team City – Curious case of failed tests but passed build

    Recently, I had written a post on how I managed bring down build pipeline for entire organization. While I was at fault during that time, Team City should take the blame for this one. Background I had recently created a CI/CD pipeline for our new .NET Core project. As part of the build pipeline, I…

  • When I brought down build-pipeline for entire organization

    December last year, last week before most of IT staff go on well-deserved vacation, when every team was trying to do one last deployment before code freeze, I brought down build-pipeline for almost every project in the company. Sounds scary? Here’s what happened. How it all started We are mostly a .NET shop and use…

  • Override appSettings during development – .NET Core

    Sometime back, I had written about how to override appSettings during development in traditional ASP.NET application. Recently, we started development of a ASP.NET Core application and had a similar challenge. Our developers work on different operating systems (Windows and Mac). They have different local connection strings and application settings. We had a same problem as…

  • Override appSettings during development

    It is a fairly common scenario that during development the local machine configuration settings for different developers in are not same and it may not match with the default value in source control. One such example can be SQL server connection string. Some developers may have SQL Express installed, others may have a named instance…

  • Tools and tricks that can help you code better and faster

    Tools andĀ tricks you can use along with Visual Studio to make your life easy as a developer:

  • TFS User – Why you need to switch to Git

    Not too long ago, TFS and SVN were the only source control I had used. I had a very little experience of distributed source controls like Git. So when I got an opportunity to work on Git on a large scale project for the first time, I had my doubts. But, it did not take…

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