Tag: deployment

Software on the hosted build server

Took directly from visual studio site: Hosted build controller.

You can check the detail list, and install the visual studio extension “Avanade Extensions for VS2012” (VS2013 version) to track the software installed on the hosted build server using the Software Inventory functionality.

The hosted build server is deployed with the following software:

  • Windows Server 2012 R2, 64-bit environment, with Windows PowerShell
  • Team Foundation Build (Team Foundation Server 2013)
  • Visual Studio
    • Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC
    • Visual Studio SDK 2013 RTM
    • Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate Update 4
    • Visual Studio SDK 2012 RTM
    • Visual Studio 2010 SP1
  • The .NET Framework
    • .NET 4.5.1
    • .NET 4.5
    • .NET 3.5 SP1
  • Microsoft Azure
    • SDK 2.3
    • SDK 2.2
    • SDK 2.1
    • SDK 2.0
    • SDK 1.8
    • SDK 1.7
  • Other components
    • Apache ANT 1.9.3
    • Apache Maven 3.1.1
    • Java Standard Edition Development Kit 1.7 U51
    • Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Update 1
    • Node.js 0.10.26
    • Node.js Tools 1.0 Alpha for Visual Studio 2013
    • SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013
    • SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2013
    • TFS Build Extensions
    • TypeScript 1.0
    • WIX Toolset 3.7
    • Web Deploy 3.0
    • Windows Phone SDK 8.0

 

Adding a PaaS Cloud Service (Web, Woker Role) to a Virtual Network

A PaaS cloud service, web or worker role, can be added in a Virtual Network only by changing its service configuration file (ServiceConfiguration.Cloud.cscfg).

You need to add the NetworkConfiguration node just after the Role node as follow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<ServiceConfiguration xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" serviceName="MyAzureApplication" osFamily="3" osVersion="*" schemaVersion="2013-03.2.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration">
    <Role name="MyMvcWebRole">
        <ConfigurationSettings>
            <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=xxx;AccountKey=xxx" />
        </ConfigurationSettings>
        <Instances count="1" />
    </Role>
    <NetworkConfiguration>
        <VirtualNetworkSite name="myazure-vnet"/>
        <AddressAssignments>
            <InstanceAddress roleName="MyMvcWebRole">
                <Subnets>
                    <Subnet name="MainSubnet"/>
                </Subnets>
            </InstanceAddress>
        </AddressAssignments>
    </NetworkConfiguration>
</ServiceConfiguration>

Visual Studio: Create self-signed certificate for ClickOnce (.pfx)

When you want to create a ClickOnce deployment you should sign the automatically generated manifest using an Authenticode certificate, providing a certificate took from the local computer cert store or passing a .pfx file.

To create an homemade self-signed .pfx file (for testing purpose only!!!), open the “Visual Studio Command Promt (2010)” or the “Developer Command Prompt for VS2012” and run the following two steps:

makecert.exe -sv TestCodeSign.pvk -n “CN=Test Code Sign” TestCodeSign.cer

pvk2pfx.exe -pvk TestCodeSign.pvk -spc TestCodeSign.cer -pfx TestCodeSign.pfx -po password

If you want, you can also omit the password.

Now that you have your own homemade certificate you can use it, especially useful while using command-line tools like mage (or mageUI with GUI support).

Stay Tuned! 😉