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VSTS Rest API – Hard to find methods

July 6, 2018 by Rene van Osnabrugge Comments Off on VSTS Rest API – Hard to find methods

This post does not have a lot of text, only an introduction. I use the VSTS Rest API quite a lot and the documentation is great, but not everything is documented or hard to find. In this post, I list some snippets that you can use to get even more out of the VSTS Rest […]

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TFS API, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Online
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Running a VS Team Services (VSO) Build Agent in a Windows Docker Container

February 15, 2016 by Rene van Osnabrugge 8 Comments

A while ago I wrote a post on how to run a Visual Studio Online (now called Visual Studio Team Services) Build Agent in a Docker Container on Linux. I got some good feedback on this post and now it is time to do the same trick again but only on Windows. Yes ! You […]

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DevOps, Docker, Tips & Tricks
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Create a Windows Docker Host and connect to it without Visual Studio

December 30, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 6 Comments

I have been exploring Docker on Windows for a while because I think it is very promising that containers can run on the Windows platform as well. I’ve also written  a few posts already about Docker but this one is all about creating a Windows Docker Host on Azure and connect to it. Why does […]

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Azure, Docker, Uncategorized
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Running a Visual Studio Build vNext agent in a Docker container

August 7, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 15 Comments

Update: 27-10-2016 Take a look at the official Microsoft Docker Images on DockerHub that also contain a Build agent With the introduction of the new build engine in Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server 2015, Microsoft also introduced real cross-platform build capabilities, The VSO-BuildAgent and tasks are both published as Open source on Github […]

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Build, Cross Platform, Docker, Tips & Tricks
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A starters guide to Git for TFS GitWits…

July 19, 2013 by Rene van Osnabrugge 8 Comments

When I started my development career way back in 1999, the first Source Control System I ever used was Visual SourceSafe. After a few years I switched to SVN for a while and I liked that. The, in 2005 came Team Foundation Server and I embraced it, including the Source Control of course. And since […]

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Articles, Source Control
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