Blogs

In the previous blog post, we addressed the features of Org Overview, All Project Details and Query Work Items. You can find all that information here:  DevOpSmartBoard – Org Level Reports Part 1 – Blogs (ecanarys.com) In this blog we will go through other features such as Userlist Groups, My…

GitHub Apps: GitHub Apps are first-class actors within GitHub. A GitHub App acts on its own behalf, taking actions via the API directly using its own identity, which means you don’t need to maintain a bot or service account as a separate user. If you don’t need to perform actions…

What is User Capacity: Capacity is the amount of time a team member has to work on the requirement in each sprint. It is important to capture each team member’s expected capacity so you can assign work in sprint planning. Capacity considers a team’s or individual user’s holidays as well…

Org Level Reports: The Org Level Reports is one of the features in the DevOpSmartBoard which gives you an overview of all the projects and data in your organization. There are several sub-features within the Org Level Reports, which are listed below. 1. Org Overview 2. All Project Details 3…

DevOpsSmartBoard – Multiple Team Capacity The capacity tool in azure DevOps sprint capacity helps you make sure your team isn’t over or under committed for the sprint. Sprint capacity time is calculated either in hours or days. Capacity takes into consideration the variation in work hours by team members. It…

DevOpSmartBoard – Subscribers DevOpSmartBoard -The Ultimate End-To-End and One Stop Dashboard solution for all the reporting needs in Azure DevOps at organization and project level. DevOpSmartBoard is currently in preview and has the following reports available: ·         DevOps Organization and project level metrics ·         Query work items with various combination of filters and export to excel ·         User…

In this article, we will discuss about the things we should consider when migrating code from .NET Framework to .NET. The Migration of project from .NET Framework to .NET is relatively a straightforward task but the complexity of the project determines how much effort is involved after the initial migration…

In this article, we will discuss about the things we should consider when migrating code from .NET Framework to .NET. The Migration of project from .NET Framework to .NET is relatively a straightforward task but the complexity of the project determines how much effort is involved after the initial migration.Applications…

Job Summaries A new feature on GitHub allows you to write job descriptions for your actions. It enables you to produce markdown as part of your workflow, render it as an output of the run in the GitHub UI, and publish it as a job summary. Custom Markdown content can…

As it is the time of cloud technology, and everyone is interested in knowing how these cloud will work. There are mainly categorized the cloud into 3 types namely: Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service), Paas (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service). Out of these 3 categories…

In GitHub, while you can see a list of packages the organization level, the packages are installed to a specific repository. We can see here the instructions for pushing various package ecosystems to GitHub npm, NuGet, Maven, Docker. In case you are storing artifacts/packages in Azure Artifacts, Dependabot also supports…

Git-leaks is a SAST tool for detecting and preventing hardcoded secrets like Passwords, API keys and tokens in GitHub Repository. Git-leaks is an easy-to-use, all-in-one solution for detecting secrets, past or present, in your code. Git-leaks would be configured as part of GitHub actions workflow for all the repositories we…

Overview: In this blog I will demonstrate how to integrate the GitHub Advance Security Code scanning capability into the Azure DevOps pipelines. I will provide example of the Repository that can guide you or your developer working to integrate code scanning into Azure DevOps . I will walk you through…

While enterprises have realized the benefits of the cloud such as agility and scalability helping them achieve business goals, performance Efficiency, reliability, Security and Cost considerations in the cloud are key decision criteria for Enterprises to move their workloads to cloud. Post the COVID-19 pandemic Enterprises have seen greater usage…

Overview: This blog will let you know migrating work items from Azure DevOps to GitHub. Work Item are nothing but we can say In Azure DevOps, a need can be stated by generating a work item Here in this scenario we have  one PowerShell script which help to migrate the…

                  CxO Roundtable at C-SOaP (Canarys – Software Offshore and Partner) SUMMIT 2013 http://ecanarys.com/ is recognized by Microsoft as among India’s premier Visual Studio IDE partners. The  roundtable discussion will include Shesh, Director – Technology Solutions of Microsoft development and Vineeth, Microsoft mobile architect, with a focus on best practices…

Entity Framework Code First Approach   Entity Framework is an enhancement to an existing ADO.Net technique and ORM framework we used for Microsoft technologies. The Entity framework is an object-relation mapper, means it takes the structure of the database and turns it into objects that the .Net framework can understand. Developers…

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is a protocol for streaming XML elements in order to exchange messages and presence information. The XMPP Core uses main features like XML Streams TLS SASL IM The basic functionality expected of XMPP is instant messaging (IM)…

GitHub Packages is a software-package hosting service, like npmjs.org, rubygems.org, or hub.docker.com, that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. You can host software packages privately or publicly and use them as dependencies in your projects. The GitHub Package Registry allows you to develop your code…

In GitHub we have services that integrate with GitHub which can help you do anything from enabling continuous integration to closing stale issues and pull requests. A GitHub App acts on its own behalf, taking actions via the API directly using its own identity, which means you don’t need to…

GitHub Action: GitHub Actions is a continues integration and continues delivery platform that allows you to automate your build, test, deployment pipeline. GitHub actions let you run workflows when other events happen in your repository. GitHub provides Linux, Windows, and macOS virtual machines to run your workflows, or you can…

About Context Contexts basically helps to get the information about workflow runs, runner environments, jobs, and steps. Contexts, objects, and properties will vary importantly under different workflow run conditions. For example, the matrix context is only populated for a matrix job. Now we will talk about valuable Context GitHub Context The GitHub…

A reusable workflow is a pre-defined GitHub Actions workflow that can be called from another workflow. Reusable workflows make it easy to treat a workflow like an Action. It can be referenced and executed from other workflows in the caller’s context. This allows teams to share common workflow patterns, to…

GitHub is a version management and collaboration tool for programming. It allows you and others to collaborate on projects from any location. Developer Workflow A standardized workflow which dictates how changes/updates can be done for an application will help developers follow the required development practices to ship secure and robust…

Codespaces is a cloud developer environment that allows us to run, test, debug, push, and do everything we're used to doing in a development environment without the need for any of the machine setup we're used to. This essentially launches a container, which will contain all your necessary tools as…

In this blog we will see how GitHub can help your organization with more securities than ever before. GitHub has a suite of security tools that enable developers to identify security vulnerabilities in their codebases.  GitHub Advanced Security helps you create secure applications with a community-driven, developer-first approach. GitHub’s security features…

GitHub has continued to expand its feature set in order to become your One-Stop-Shop for all of your DevOps requirements. Every organization wants visibility and tracking while implementing DevOps. As a result of our experience with several GitHub Enterprise implementations for our clients, we are frequently asked about the best…

In terms of web applications, underlying infrastructure plays a vital role in coping with application performance, complex logic, traffic surges, and long-running processor execution times. it is one of the most difficult jobs to calculate the specifications in terms of infrastructure for web applications, whether it is public-facing applications or…

Introduction In this blog we will see what is Azure App Service, and it’s  features and why do we use it, we can develop an application in any language or framework, such as .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, or Python. Applications run and scale as per our need…

In this blog we will see how and why to Azure DevOps Server (earlier named as TFS) data backup. I will be using Azure DevOps Server or TFS word interchangeably. We should backup the data of our Azure DevOps Server deployment in order to avoid loss of data, productivity loss…