In this post I have gathered ten useful features of Visual Studio Team Services. Many of these are not new features, but you had to dig a little to find out they were there. In the recent months the UI has received several improvements and some of these are now more visible, without having to dive deep in the collection administration. There are also a couple of recent additions that should make your life easier! ...
I am starting to find myself spend more and more time in Visual Studio Code. Instead of going to VSTS project sites to view status of my builds, I decided to put it directly into VS Code as an extension. The extension puts a status icon in the status bar which shows the status of a selected build definition. You can find the “Visual Studio Team Services Build Status” extension directly in VS Code or the market place https://github.com/jlandersen/vscode-vsts-build-status which also shows how to configure the extension with your VSTS account. ...
In this article we will look at an example of how to build docker images and pushing to a Docker registry using the new cross-platform Visual Studio Online Build. As the running example we will take a small Node.js application, push it to a Git repository and have VSO build take over from there. The goal is to show how to build a docker image and push it to Docker Hub with a Linux build agent. A different machine acting as a web server can then spin up a container from the image a few seconds after. ...