Category: API

Following along the same line as some of the previous API examples I've posted I thought I'd post an example on how to make use of the VSTS APIs to create a new file in a VSTS-based Git repo. This can be handy if you need to get a file into VSTS but don't want to mess around with calling out to the Git command line or making use of various Git libraries. If you're new to calling the VSTS REST APIs or you are new to this series of articles then I would recommend you check out the other…

Adding yet another post related to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) REST APIs, I thought I’d cover an example of how to download a file from a Git repo in VSTS using the REST APIs (I will cover TFVC-based repositories in another post). In the example below, I will be using C# to make the API calls. However, you can use whatever approach makes the most sense for you (e.g. JavaScript, PowerShell, etc.).If you are new to calling the VSTS REST APIs or you are new to this series of articles then I would recommend on clicking the View API…

Continuing along with my other various examples of VSTS API calls, I thought I’d include an example on how to call a Visual Studio Team Services REST API using PowerShell.To provide a concrete example, consider this scenario:We use VSTS-based builds to build our projects and create artifacts (e.g. web apps/services, binaries, etc.). We then make use of Octopus Deploy to deploy our artifacts into our various environments (e.g. development, test, production, etc.). Once these artifacts have been deployed to the production environment, we’d like to keep them around indefinitely.As you are likely aware, VSTS has a default retention policy on…