Normally we use SDKs to interact with Azure. Things like the Azure .NET SDK, the Azure PowerShell module, or the dozens of other SDKs listed here can be used. These SDKs provide a lot of helpful utilities and validation, but ultimately they will hit the Azure REST API once they need to phone home. Azure’s REST API provides this all-important foundation to write code against the platform.
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How to highlight blocked work items on a Visual Studio Team Services sprint board
Today we are going to walk through a helpful modification to the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) process and style templates; with the goal of making it easier to find and visualize blocked work.
Note: This post was written right before VSTS re-branded as Azure DevOps. For new instructions for Azure DevOps, visit this link: https://keithbabinec.com/2019/10/08/how-to-visually-highlight-blocked-work-items-on-an-azure-devops-sprint-board/
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How to capture and debug .NET application crash dumps in Windows
It is important for software engineers to understand how to analyze process dumps so that they can determine why their application is crashing or behaving unexpectedly. However, it can be hard to know where to start with the process. This post aims to be a starting point for a very common situation: debugging a crash dump for a .NET application running on Windows. A crashing application is easily detected in the Windows Event Log when the .NET Framework logs the error, “The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.”
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How to troubleshoot PowerShell scripts not running under a scheduled task
Situation: you have written a PowerShell script that runs fine when you launch it from PowerShell directly, but fails to start or run when you try to plug it into a schedule task.
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