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Code Sharing (PowerShell): Update Octopus variable via Octopus API
The trace-ability features when linking between Octopus and TFS/VSTS work pretty well out of the box, especially when using the Octopus Deploy build extension. When Releases are created by a build, there is a link in the Release description that points back to the build that created it. There is... [Read More] -
Visual Studio Marketplace Metrics
Earlier this year I decided to create some Visual Studio Marketplace build extensions. I was re-using the same tasks in multiple build definitions and there wasn’t anything published to the marketplace that accomplished what I needed. The first extension I created is used to upload files to AWS S3; this... [Read More] -
Custom Build Conditions in VSTS
On March 29th, 2017 the VSTS team released a new feature that added the ability to specify conditions for running a build task. This provides more control over your build tasks, for things such as a task to clean things up (even if a build fails), or send a message... [Read More] -
Migrating Team Foundation Server to Visual Studio Team Services
Last month I migrated our TFS collection to VSTS using Microsoft’s Database Import Service and migration guide. To be frank, it was a long process and it took a lot of going back and forth to make sure I fully understood the guide which is a PDF that is 58... [Read More]