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Giving an AI Agent SSH Access Without Giving It Your Password An AI agent may need to run commands on a remote machine during a one-off administrative task.

This is an experiment.

AI browser agents are becoming increasingly powerful.

If you’re a C# developer who has relied on a full Visual Studio IDE for years, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) might look like too small a tool for serious work.

GitHub Copilot: Plan Then Execute in Background with Git Worktree GitHub Copilot’s recent evolution has introduced a revolutionary capability that fundamentally changes how developers can delegate work to AI: the ability to plan first and then execute in…

When vibe coding, detailed specifications are highly advisable.

Azure OpenAI supports now o3-pro model.

The problem When you author GitHub action pipelines, you usually use third party actions, that can be easily referenced in your workflow with simple syntax.

Running Sonar Cloud analysis on your open source project is usually a good thing, it is free, it gives you tons of useful information and you can automate everything for free with GitHub Actions.

Pipeline statistics in Azure DevOps provide a wealth of information that can help you understand the performance and efficiency of your pipelines.

In Azure DevOps, pipelines are a fundamental component for automating the build and release process.

Azure DevOps is a really complete set of functionalities to manage your Development Team and more.

Happy New Year to everyone.

Managing pipeline/build agents is something that you should avoid if possible, preferring docker based agents or Microsoft hosted agents.

When you need to access your Git Repositories hosted on Azure DevOps in Linux, you have basically two distinct options.

Microsoft introduced Dependency Injection in the base framework with .NET Core, but until then, with the classic framework, we used external libraries, I’ve used Castle Windsor for years without any problem, but when .NET 8 was out, we start having tons of

Today I got a strange error in Azure DevOps, I create a new Product Backlog Item, while I was writing it I realized that it would be better to create a Bug Type.

In our team, everything regarding developing is kept in Azure DevOps, but other informations are stored inside a custom software, so we often have the need to jump between a system and the other one.

This article is a prosecution of the previous one on creating Docker Images for your Pull Requests and deals with cleanup of your Docker Registry.

The whole Pull Request process mechanism has a single purpose, have a better quality of the code that reach develop or generally speaking main branch.

I have the luck to have enabled the technical preview of Github Copilot Workspace.

If you use more than one Nuget Feed in your solution and especially if you are using central package versioning, you probably got a warning telling you to use Package Source Mapping.

I blogged in the past on how you can Analyze you code with SonarCloud in a GitHub action.

Scenario: We have to create a new environment for a new customer, and an environment consists of some resources on Azure, plus an environment in azure DevOps to use with deploy pipeline.

A frequently overlooked feature that can significantly enhance functionality in Azure DevOps is the ability to attach links to a WorkItem.

This is an argument I’ve already discussed in the past in A post about nuget authentication.

The ability to customize process of Azure DevOps is one of the most powerful feature of the platform.

When configuring Azure DevOps pipelines, developers have a choice to make regarding the execution environment for their pipelines: they can either leverage Microsoft-managed agents provided in Azure or opt to self-host agents on their own infrastructure,…

If you use Azure DevOps, it’s worth checking in repository settings page all the settings related to the policies of the repository itself.

When publishing an ASP.NET core web project, it’s often necessary to include certain files external to the Visual Studio solution but that are logical part of the project.

Pull requests are a cornerstone of collaborative software development, particularly with distributed version control systems like Git and platforms such as GitHub or Azure DevOps.

I encountered a problem with a simple pipeline designed for building a .NET Core project, which I had recently updated to .NET8.

The risk of inadvertently including secrets in your Git repository has significantly increased in recent years.

I have always suggested people to only use rebates when you pull changes from the branch you are working on in git.

In my previous blog posts, I’ve extensively discussed how to publish symbol libraries for .NET in Azure DevOps / Team Foundation Server.

Let’s assume we need to deploy in a cloud environment and prefer not to install an agent on each physical environment.

For me, running GitVersion as part of a Pipeline is a golden standard.

Semantic Kernel reached Release Candidate and there are some breaking changes from the latest beta.

If you create a new Azure DevOps Pipeline and include running GitVersion, sometimes you may encounter an error like the following: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 INFO [11/15/23 19:00:57:95] Begin: Calculating base…

I’m authoring a release pipeline in Azure DevOps on an AWS ARM linux machine, I’ve installed the agent and created the script.

With Azure Devops Environments you can register Virtual Machines with a dedicated agent that is capable of releasing your software.

Managing references is easy with Nuget, however, from a security standpoint, it’s not straightforward to ensure your project’s security by upgrading vulnerable references.

Sometimes, you may encounter a problem in a production environment, such as a service that suddenly starts consuming a significant amount of RAM and CPU.

Azure DevOps has a dedicated section for artifacts that allows you to store NuGet, NPM feeds, and more.

In the past, I’ve discussed using pipeline decorators to clean up build folders.

I have a project that uses git submodules in the past then they are removed long time ago, no-one had problem but I’ve noticed that Visual Studio had some strange warning during the build. 1 warning : Could not find a part of the path 'C:\develop\xxx\sub…

A build in Azure Devops recently started to fail during the index symbol task.

Have you ever found yourself being asked to select a GitHub account every time you make a push?

For people like me who prefer using Git in the command line, there are times when I need to retrieve information about pull requests or other GitHub related tasks.

The ability to update Azure DevOps pipelines is a compelling feature, especially if you manage numerous on-premise agents.