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Posts from September 2026 3
Installed Visual Studio 2026 But Your Azure Pipeline Skips Every SDK-Style Project? Check Which MSBuild Is Actually Running.
Sep 25, 2026

NU1503 'Skipping restore for project' on every SDK-style project, right after installing VS 2026 on the agent. The VSBuild task is still picking VS 20...
devops azure-devops azure-pipelines msbuild visual-studio-2026 dotnet-10
Self-Hosted Azure Pipelines Agent Can't Restore From Your Private NuGet Feed? It's Probably Two Problems, Not One.
Sep 25, 2026

The agent can't get packages from your Azure Artifacts feed. It looks like one problem. It's two -- TLS trust and feed identity -- and neither one is ...
devops azure-devops azure-pipelines azure-artifacts nuget self-hosted-agent
The Scaling Trap: More People Won't (Necessarily) Make Your Team Faster
Sep 22, 2026

Delivery feels slow, so leadership adds people. Makes total sense. Except when it doesn't — and in software, it doesn't a lot more often than you'd th...
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