Category Archives: Deployment

Slot switching Azure Website from VSTS

Posted on October 14, 2016 by

In my last post I covered off how to set up a simple release process that deploys to an Azure Website in classic mode. That process involved an explicit web deploy to each slot. What might be useful for some … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, Deployment, Development, DevOps | Leave a comment

Minimal path to awesome–VSTS Release Management and Classic mode Azure Website

Posted on October 2, 2016 by

I’ve been doing a whole lot of work with Visual Studio Team Services, formerly Visual Studio Online, and making heavy us of the Release Management feature as I discussed recently on the Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 146. As this can … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, Deployment, Development, DevOps | 1 Comment

MVPComCamp: PowerShell Automation for Everyone

Posted on March 24, 2014 by

Last weekend around the world there was a global series of events hosted by Microsoft known as MVPComCamp. I was one of the people to present here in Auckland, New Zealand. I was speaking on a topic dear to me, … Continue reading →

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Whitespace: Silent Killer!

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

Today I went hunting in an XML file for an erroneous double space I knew was there.  I was horrified to see all those extra spaces there!!! Now this Visual Studio 2010 instance is just running the default setup with … Continue reading →

Posted in Deployment, Visual Studio | 4 Comments

Visual Web Parts for SharePoint in the Sandbox

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Get ‘em while they’re hot! Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools plus a sandboxed compilation to ensure you’re not accidentally calling outside of the allowed set of types and members.

Posted in Deployment, Development, Sandbox, SharePoint, Visual Studio | Leave a comment

Browser Caps for WP7 as a Mobile Device

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

So, people are using the Windows Phone 7 browser now, I’m one of them; I love my WP7. Anyway OOTB SharePoint doesn’t recognise the this as a mobile browser. So I had to edit the compat.browser file ( %WebAppRootDir%\ App_Browsers\compat.browser … Continue reading →

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Disable Mobile Redirection for a Web Application via PowerShell

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

So I’ve got a SharePoint site that is optimised for viewing in mobile browsers, problem is that OOTB SharePoint is trying to show the fugly “mobile view”. Now Waldek has a post about just this problem, in my case I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Deployment, Development, PowerShell, SharePoint | 7 Comments