Category Archives: TFSBuild.com

I’ve accepted a job with Microsoft

This morning I accepted an offer for a job on the Visual Studio team in Redmond (Seattle). My wife and I are super excited about this opportunity. Unfortunately it means that I’ll no longer be an MVP. (A small price to pay I guess).
Scott Hanselman summed it up well when he joined Microsoft last [...]

Strong Name your assemblies with Team Build using a private key

In my last post, I talked about Strong Name and Digital (Authenticode) signatures and how they relate to each other. This post describes how you can strong name your .NET assemblies using Team Build without handing over your private key to developers. Remember from my previous post:
Strong names are secure only when the strong name [...]

Strong Naming vs. Digital Signatures

In this post I’ll explain why you might choose Strong Naming and/or Digital Signatures for your .NET assemblies. In my next post I describe how you can Strong Name your .NET assemblies using Team Build without sharing your private key with developers.
I’ve distilled some of the key points from these resources:

MSDN: Signing and Checking Code [...]

VSTS Community Update: TFSBuild.com & OzTFS.com

Since I launched TFSBuild.com - the Team Build & MSBuild Recipes site earlier this year, it’s been averaging ~50 visits a day.

There’s some great recipes up now thanks to some contributors like dmcewing, Michael Ruminer, Martin Woodward, Mike Douglas and Eugene Zakhareyev.

Keeping the Build Number and Assembly Version in sync
Build and Assembly [...]