Triggering a Build In Visual Studio Online and Check Status

A few months back, Andrew Tarr showed us how to trigger a build from another build using PowerShell. That worked pretty well for us and remains the recommended way to have a chain of builds in Visual Studio Online. However, recently I was working on a project that needed to trigger a build but also get…

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Hari’s Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts

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I’ve always wanted to write a blog post containing my favorite Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts. However, this guy beat me to it. But that’s okay because I learned a few tricks that I didn’t know. Of course there many useful shortcuts than the six he mentioned. Here are some that I use all the time:…

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Updating Version Information for Xamarin.iOS builds on Visual Studio Team Services

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In last week’s blog post Andrew showed us how to trigger a build from another build. The need to do that was just the first part of a bigger series of events that eventually led to subsequent builds being automatically versioned for us. After the builds were completed, we needed to ship the Xamarin.iOS build…

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Visual Studio Team Services – Triggering A Build From A Build (Using PowerShell)

As of April 2016, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) does not support triggering a build from another build. This presents a problem if you want your setup to do something like start two builds from a single pull request onto a branch (because VSTS does not support starting multiple builds from one pull request trigger)….

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