Customizing Columns in Your Azure DevOps Sprint/Task Boards

Kanban flow of the Azure Boards for user stories, features or other top level back log boards was a feature available in Azure DevOps Boards for a long time. However, it was not possible to change the sprint board columns in Azure DevOps, without introducing new states to Task work item or any work item which is using sprint board previously. This long awaited community request has been now completed and available in Azure DevOps services. Azure DevOps on-premise server does not have this feature we can hope it would be added to the on-premise server eventually. Let’s look at how we can customize the columns in the Sprint boards with this new feature.

Resolving 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'azure_services' While Setting a Network Rule to Azure Key Vault

As infrastructure automation is vital aspect of DevOps, you might want to setup an Azure Key Vault to use a Subnet in a vnet, programmatically. For this you can use Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) and you may run into an error 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'azure_services'. Let’s have a look at how to get this issue resolved.

Fixing Azure DevOps Xamarine Build error XA5300: The Java SDK Directory could not be found

When you try to build xamarine android projects with Azure Pipelines hosted agent Windows 2019 with VS2019 you might encounter error “XA5300: The Java SDK Directory could not be found”, if you are using a visual studio build task or msbuild task to build a solution which includes android projects. This is caused due to the inability to find the java sdk in the hosted agent. Let’s see how we can get this issue fixed.