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Visual Studio Online Check-In Policies

Want to produce better code and more efficient development group? Start using Visual Studio Online check-in policies within your team project. Check-in Policies are rules you can define at a Visual Studio Online team project which are enforced when a developer attempts to check-in their source code. Note: You must be using Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) with your project in order to use the check-in policies.  Although VSO now supports Git as a version control system for your team project, check-in policies are not supported. One of the main reasons I started using check-in policies was to enforce associated… Read More »Visual Studio Online Check-In Policies

Integrate LeanKit and Visual Studio Online

LeanKit and Visual Studio Online are both two great tools.  Why not use them both?  Here is a guide to integrate LeanKit and Visual Studio Online. Although Visual Studio Online (and Team Foundation Server) provide a task board  to visualize work items and flow, I prefer to use the fully customized Kanban board by LeanKit.  Thankfully, I found out that LeanKit has created an Integration Service, which is available on GitHub. My goal is to manage all work items within LeanKit, however I want to be able to associate Visual Studio Online Work Items to changesets (during checking) within Visual Studio.  (LeanKit/VSO ChangeLog how-to coming soon!) Overall… Read More »Integrate LeanKit and Visual Studio Online

Greg Young: 8 Lines of Code

Greg Young gave a good talk titled 8 Lines of Code, discussing simplicity, dependencies, and magic. Magic is always something I try and identify and stay away from in my own code, however I really failed to realize how much magic goes on in some of the libraries/frameworks that I often use.  Entity Framework and nHibernate come to mind.  You really should understand the magic happening in these libraries to use them.  Which is very problematic. If you take the dependency ownership seriously, then a lot of folks developing the front-end of a “modern” web applications are in a world of… Read More »Greg Young: 8 Lines of Code