John R. Spinella Blog
ALM, TFS and everything in between...
Using PowerShell to implement a Farm-wide Global Navigation solution from the Managed Metadata Term Store in SharePoint 2013
Co-Written by John R. Spinella & Daniel Setlock We had a requirement at a customer to provide...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 05/04/2017
Release Explorer for Visual Studio Beta: Update
Hello, To give everyone a update, I am currently finishing up the integration of VSO/RMO. With the...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 05/29/2015
Release Explorer for Visual Studio Beta
For some time now, I have been working on a update to my Deployment Explorer that was built for the...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 03/06/2015
Dev/Test with Microsoft Azure & Visual Studio 2013
So, I have been working a lot with customers on DevOps and one of the quick and easy way to achieve...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 11/21/2014
Modern DevOps Tools
Hey everyone, Been awhile since I posted anything, been really busy. I just wanted to update...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 05/28/2014
Channel 9 video - Introducing DevOps Workbench Express Edition for Visual Studio 2012
You can watch the full video here:...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 10/03/2013
DevOps Workbench Express Edition Release for Visual Studio 2012
The ALM Rangers currently released the DevOps Workbench Express Edition guidance to Codeplex (here)...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 10/03/2013
Targeted for Visual Studio 2012 – DevOps Deployment Workbench Express Edition
New Video posted today by my good friend and team mate on YouTube about the DevOps Workbench Express...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 10/03/2013
BRDLite V2.0 is Released to the Public!
After a few weeks of silent ship, which did not reveal any showstoppers, we would like to announce...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 02/21/2013
Using ReverseGeocodeQuery for Windows Phone 8
So, I started writing some of my apps I had for Android and WP7 for Windows Phone 8 and to my...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 11/02/2012
Presented at the Virginia Software Developers Group
Hello, had a great time seeing all the Virginia developers at the September version of the Virginia...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 09/14/2012
BRDLite for SharePoint v2.0 - What's New
In my previous post, What is BRDLite? I talked about what is BRDLite and what is coming in the next...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 09/13/2012
SharePoint Software Development Lifecycle using TFS 2012 Part 1
Most companies I have been working with have a lot of problems trying to adopt to a SDLC model with...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 08/02/2012
What is Build Release Deploy (BRDLite) ?
Ever since I started on the ALM Rangers project "BRDLite Reference Template", I hear this question a...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 07/29/2012
Announcing OneCode Sample Browser v5 - A Big Refresh with Expansion to 3500+ code samples, Favorite Searches, Flexibilities & More
In partnership with MSDN Samples Gallery, OneCode this morning is releasing a brand new version for...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 05/05/2012
VSTS ALM Ranger
Hello everyone, Today, I officially became a VSTS ALM Ranger, check out my ranger index: Introducing...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 10/23/2011
BizTalk 2010 Real World Example - Part 1
Introduction I wanted to write this blog for the benefit of anyone trying to dip their toes in the...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 06/20/2011
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Guidance Released
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have finally shipped the Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Guidance....
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 06/20/2011
VSTS Rangers Build Management Guide Released
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have finally shipped the Visual Studio 2010 Build Management Guidance....
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 06/20/2011
Learn how ASP.NET apps scale via the cloud
I just watched a great webcast on learning how to scale your asp.net applications with Windows...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 06/16/2011
Windows 8 on the horizon!
So, many of you have seen or heard about the sneak peek of the new version of Windows. I have read...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 06/02/2011
Visual Studio ALM videos at Microsoft TechEd 2011
Hello Everyone, Here is a blog post from Visual Studio Architecture, Visualization, Modeling, and...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 05/31/2011
Handling Exceptions when Sending Mail via System.Net.Mail
I am sure alot of us when sending mail from a web application, we sometimes run into some unforeseen...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 05/31/2011
My first blog post
Hello Everyone! This is my first blog post on my new official MSDN blog site. I am very excited to...
Author: John R. Spinella Date: 05/30/2011