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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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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