Run Azure Pipeline with REST call

You can invoke Azure Pipeline via REST API.Here's such invocation implemented with PowerShell.$creds = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes("user:$PAT")) $basicAuth = "Basic $creds" $Headers = @{ Authorization = $basicAuth } $Payload = [PSCustomObject]@{ resources = [PSCustomObject]@{ repositories =[PSCustomObject]@{ self = [PSCustomObject] @{ refName = "refs/heads/$Branch" } } } variables…

Talk to your Windows machine with SSH!

Accessing VMs with RDP is tedious, slow and hacky DevOps way.Here's how you can set up your Windows based environment with OpenSSH.WSLUsing Windows Subsystem for Linux on client machine can be quite helpful as most of SSH related tools don't come out to Windows. I like to use…

Countering builds with Azure Pipelines

$(Rev:r) can only be used for name definitionBy default, builds are versioned with date and revision: $(Date:yyyyMMdd).$(Rev:r), eg. 20200507.42. The date changes every day (obviously), and for each day revision will start counting from 1: 20200101.1, 20200101.2, 20200102.1, and so on.$(Rev:…

Debug multiple processes in Rider

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The type X is not compatible with type Y

Recently our firm switched from BitBucket to Azure DevOps. This allowed us to create our own extensions using Azure Services REST API. Microsoft already delivers .NET client, so getting what you want is pretty straightforward.For example, retrieving Pull Request data with C# looks like thisvar conn = new VssConnection( new…