Everything is building great in your CI/CD pipeline and then BOOM your build fails for no reason. You didn't change anything in your code!?!?! That was me this morning as I was updating my InAppBilling Plugin for .NET. I got hit with this beauty:
error XA0031: Java SDK 11.0 or above is required when using $(TargetFrameworkVersion) v13.0
What is going on?!?!? Starting with Visual Studio 2022 17.8, which was just …
James Montemagno
I am going to be honest with all of you, I never really understood Git tags and releases inside of GitHub. In my old TFVC days I would just create a branch with the name of the release and call that my "tag" so I could always go back to it. What sparked my interest was seeing a bunch of popular projects that I was using combine tags with the GitHub releases. I started reading the documentation and still …
James Montemagno
A little over a year ago, I introduced my Mobile App Tasks Extensions for iOS and Android into the Azure DevOps (VSTS) marketplace. For iOS and Android developers it made the tasks of versioning and adjusting package names a breeze. They were written completely in TypeScript with VS Code and of course are open source on GitHub. Since the initial release I have received overall positive feedback and a few feature …
James Montemagno
I build a lot of .NET libraries that include simple .NET Standard libraries to fully cross-platform plugins for Xamarin and Windows that target up to 10 different platforms. When I got started building libraries and shipping them to NuGet I went down a simple path of just building everything locally on my machine and manually uploading them to NuGet. This worked great for a single library, but as soon as I took on a …
James Montemagno
Over the last few years I have fallen in love with Azure DevOps (VSTS) for handling all of my application and backend continuous integration, deployment, and release management. Each of these services offer a task based build and release definition that enable you to easily start automating anything. There are a ton of built in tasks, and a whole marketplace where you can install them into your Azure DevOps (VSTS) …
James Montemagno
I love Continuous Integration and Deployment for mobile applications and have given several talks on it in the past. It streamlines your entire development process and makes it drop dead simple to simply commit code and have everything you don’t want to do manually be taken care of for you. This means build, test, bump versions, and ship off to testers with integrations like HockeyApp. Notice I mention “bump …
James Montemagno
