Fetching build definitions from Visual Studio Online through TFS API

Question

I\'m having a problem retrieving build information from a Visual Studio Online project through the TFS API. I can connect to the project, it seems, and find the expected tea

Answer 1

You can utilize the BuildHttpClient to make similar requests as you would with the 2.0 REST API.

This sample on GitHub is a pretty good resource, if you would rather poll a single project it should look something more like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.WebApi;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Client;

static void GetBuildStatus()
{
    var tfsUrl = "http://<tfs url>:<port>/tfs/<collectionname>";
    var buildClient = new BuildHttpClient(new Uri(tfsUrl), new VssAadCredential());
    var definitions = buildClient.GetDefinitionsAsync(project: "<projectmame>");
    var builds = buildClient.GetBuildsAsync("<projectname>";

    foreach (var build in builds.Result)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0} - {1} - {2} - {3}", build.Definition.Name, build.Id.ToString(), build.Status.ToString(), build.StartTime.ToString()));
    }
}

Answer 2

I believe you are right I have just tested your code against my own VSO on a GIT project and I cannot retrieve any build.vNext builds, however I can retrieve old XAML build definitions.

I then tried using the REST API and it too could only return the old style XAML builds until I got it to use version 2 of the REST API and then the XAML and build.vNext style builds came back. Here is an example string I tried in my browser (make sure you are logged into VSO first to test it)

https://[vsoname].visualstudio.com/defaultcollection/[project]/_apis/build/definitions?api-version=2.0