Azure Pipelines: Passing Variables Between Stages

Variables inside Azure Pipelines have a long history of complexity. I get the feeling that they started off pretty simple and primitive. Over time the introduction of new features like YAML pipelines along with templating and expressions have made a...

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Meetup: Getting Started with Azure Pipelines

I had the pleasure this evening of presenting at the "Brampton DevOps/Cloud Computing Meetup". It was a nice atmosphere where we got to sit down and talk a lot about different aspects of using Azure DevOps out of the box...

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VSTS Build Task: GitHub Tag

So you are utilizing Visual Studio Team Services as your build server for direct integration into GitHub, perhaps entirely or perhaps just for your public repo's in GitHub (while your private repo's are in VSTS). In either case, in a...

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Building Custom VSTS Build Tasks

The new VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services - formerly Visual Studio Online) task based build system is absolutely fantastic (also in TFS 2015 on premise). I've been slowly and surely falling in love with it in the realization that is...

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