by Nathan Wilkinson | Jan 18, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
by Hari Wiguna | Aug 3, 2016 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
by Matt Will | May 11, 2016 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
by Andrew Tarr | May 3, 2016 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
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...