I've got an existing project running that I have added kendo ui to via bower. We have a licensed copy so I am using the professional package.
Our TeamCity server is running Windows with many build agents, how can I pass the credentials to bower to authenticate with the kendo ui repo ?
I would prefer not to run a command on each build agent machine, and don't mind if I have to store the credentials in plain text.
Using a .netrc file should work. Make sure it is stored in the right directory for Windows. Usually it should be the home directory of the user that your TeamCity server runs as.
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We normally use on-premises Azure DevOps Server to maange our build pipelines, using YML files. We have build agents running on one or more build servers.
A specific piece of R&D would be made far easier if we could install VS and a build-agent on a standalone box which is not linked to the Azure DevOps server, and manually 'run an YML build' against the build agent locally.
We don't have access to DevOps server from this machine and the alternative is rescripting an alternative to our YML in Powerscript or similar.
Is there any realistic way to do this?
Is it possible to manually run a build on a local Azure build agent without a DevOps server?
I am afraid there is no such way to manually run a build on a local Azure build agent without a DevOps server.
That's because azure devops services/server is equivalent to an interpreter and trigger. Agent itself is not a program that can be executed independently like MSBuild.exe, it does not have the ability to parse YAML grammar, it can only execute the parsed command passed by the server.
I totally understand your needs and approve of it, so I recommend you add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/post.html?space=21 ), which is our main forum for product suggestions：
Environment
MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave, Visual Studio For Mac v8.7.9
API service built on .NET Core framework
Issue: I have a .NET Core project that has a web deploy publish profile to deploy updates to the windows server running on EC2 (IIS).
When I was working on windows, I could easily deploy it through the web deploy UI in the visual studio but after I migrated to the macOS, cannot find such option in the visual studio. I can click on the existing web deploy publish option but it always fails because I need to provide the password somewhere. I tried to add <Password> under the pubxml file but it doesn't read as a valid tag.
Existing publish profiles
Error
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.403/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish/targets/PublishTargets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish.MSDeploy.targets(140,5): error : Web deployment task failed. (Connected to the remote computer using the Web Management Service, but could not authorize. Make sure that you are using the correct user name and password, that the site you are connecting to exists, and that the credentials represent a user who has permissions to access the site. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_USER_UNAUTHORIZED.)
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.403/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish/targets/PublishTargets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish.MSDeploy.targets(140,5): error : Make sure the site name, user name, and password are correct. If the issue is not resolved, please contact your local or server administrator.
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.403/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish/targets/PublishTargets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish.MSDeploy.targets(140,5): error : Error details:
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.403/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish/targets/PublishTargets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish.MSDeploy.targets(140,5): error : Connected to the remote computer ("ec2-3-92-105-216.compute-1.amazonaws.com") using the Web Management Service, but could not authorize. Make sure that you are using the correct user name and password, that the site you are connecting to exists, and that the credentials represent a user who has permissions to access the site. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_USER_UNAUTHORIZED.
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.1.403/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish/targets/PublishTargets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish.MSDeploy.targets(140,5): error : The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
Publish failed to deploy.
Currently I have not yet found the answer for that but I've found a kind of work around.
I publish the project to a folder (be careful with dotnet parameters) and after that manually copy files in "bin/Release/netcoreapp3.1/publish" v. ftp to my server.
In order to save a lot of time, it makes sense to copy only newer / different size files.
Not elegant at all, but this is the way how it works for me now.
Will be happy to hear, someone found a solution how to store the password for webdeploy on MacOS
I have an Octopus Deployment Project in which I am doing some changes in settings files like appsettings.json. So in different steps lots of changes been done. So at the end I am deploying it into Azure. But my question is, is there is any way to download a package just before pushing into Azure.
I know there are option to download package from Library. But those are not processed. So I need the altered package to be download.
How are you deploying to Azure? Is it an Azure Web App? In a lot of steps, you can use custom deployment scripts and variable substitution to update the package prior to its installation.
For example, in the Deploy an Azure Web App step, you can click on Configure Features and enable Custom Deployment Scripts and JSON Configuration Variables.
Can Visual studio 2019 be used as a local IDE for a solution running on a remote server? specifically i want to create a node.js application on a remote server hosted / provided by my ISP using Vstudio that's running on my local windows machine. I'd like the builds to run on the remote server. Is this possible?
To date, I have been connecting via ssh and just using VIM to create my apps. But I see that VStudio is free and has a lot of support for different types of apps so wanted to give a try.
I launched VStudio and created a new node.js application. Gave it a name (it was pointing to a local folder)
But then when I tried to do was go under Tools -> options ->Cross platform-> connection manager.
I successfully added a connection to my remote server. I know the connection worked because it detected that the remote server is running Ubuntu.
I must be still missing a step because when I try to build, instead of running the build against the remote server, it tries to build locally.
Maybe I can't do this. Maybe I need a local dev environment... build local and then copy the js files over to the target machine.
But jut thought I'd check
Thanks.
Recently by using Visual Studio 2013 I have developed a program that displays alarm information based on its time and alarm tone settings. Those settings and files are stored in MySQL database.
The issue is:
Is there any way to install this application to another computer without requiring to export the database, install MySQL database and configuring it.
Just I want to Install the required database file and application at ones including to the Software installation package. or what you will advice me.
Using the Installshield Lite packaged with VS2013 you can create a setup that will include the setup of applications such as MySQL.
When the setup runs, it will install MySQL with the parameters provided. If you configure the application to use silent install as discussed here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/windows-installer-msi-quiet.html then the installation will be seen as 'part of' your setup.
For the settings, I would recommend creating a setup application (console app) that will read a .sql file etc and configure the database. This too can be run as a pre-requisite of your installation.
You can also do this all manually (i.e. write your own setup application that will call MySQL setup using Process class, install MySQL, create project folder, create shortcuts etc). The Installshield is not fully functional and a gets a lot of bad press, but will do the job for a quick/simple install.