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Running Gulp and NPM in VSO Build fails with “Run as Administrator” message

The past months I’ve been heavily involved with Angular and ASP.NET Web API projects. While moving a project from an on-premise build server to Visual Studio Online I ran into an issue for which I could not find any solution at first. The default npm task was failing for no apparent reason and just outputted that the task had to be run as Administrator.

Long story short, I added the –force attribute and suddenly the issue was resolved.

ForceBuild

Since I wanted to write this down, I had to reproduce the issue. So I removed the attribute again but the build somehow kept building. I had also deleted the failed builds so I have no log anymore to illustrate the issue.

Something has changed though as the builds now take much longer than before, even without the force attribute. You can see that in the image below. Hopefully I don’t run into it again, I added the force attribute after reading this GitHub issue.

madness

 

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Session: Storm with HDInsight

Two weeks ago I spoke at the Belgian Azure user group (AZUG). I gave an introduction on Storm with HDInsight. You can find a recording of the session on their website.

My talk was divided in three parts, a introduction, a deep dive to give an overview of the main concepts of a Storm topology and then several scenario’s and how they can be solved.

The deep dive centered around creating a Twitter battle where hashtags were counted and the results then displayed on a website. You can find the code on my GitHub account.