#azure tools

“Let’s Encrypt” Azure Web Apps (and renew your certs through automation!)

We already ran into this twice, our @SDNCast website was down again as our SSL-certificates expired. The certificates are only valid for three months by default so every time after three months this would happen again.

Also, and Google actively started to ‘block’ so called ‘unsafe’ websites as of today, more and more browsers will refuse to open these ‘unsafe’ websites, so we had to find a…

Brady Gaster – Getting Started building Visual Studio Code Extensions

This Sunday our second recorded session went live that we recorded at our June SDN Event in Zeist (NL). Last week we had the keynote by Richard Campbell but this week is the first session of two by Brady Gaster: https://youtu.be/3CryYLD8758 Visual Studio Code has been getting a lot of positive attention in our industry since its introduction. The small install size and speed of the product make…

How to Upgrade Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Azure Cloud Service projects. (Continuous Integration Builds failing on TFS/ Teamcity Build Server)

Scenario : Recently I was involved in writing a cloud service have used Visual Studio 2013 to create a cloud service projects. I was able to use compile and run the application on the local development machine which is windows 7. Now, I have a need to run the Continuous Integration build on the TFS Build server.

Problem:

Unable to run the Continuous Integration Builds. When running the Continuous…