Gitflow and Visual Studio Team Services
This last year our team made the decision to move from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git. [Read More]
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VSTS Marketplace Extension: Queue Build(s) Task
Currently the TFS/VSTS build system has a pretty big bottleneck: tasks run in serial. For build steps that run PowerShell, I’ve implemented runspaces to run processes in parallel (Invoke-Parallel is amazing). However, that only works for one build step. The rest have to wait until it’s finished. [Read More] -
Using Task Groups in TFS/VSTS
When Microsoft announced Task Groups in TFS and VSTS, I couldn’t think of a practical use for them. When creating build definitions I always try to reduce the number of overall definitions by using prompted variables when possible, this way the user can modify the variable when queuing a build... [Read More]