Continuous integration - queuing the build and trigger manually

In the previous recipe, you came to understand and learned how to create and configure the build definition. In this recipe, you will learn how to trigger the build manually and understand the process of building the application.

Getting ready

Before we begin, make sure:

1. That you have configured the build definition as mentioned in the previous recipe.
2. That all your source code is checked in to the VSTS Team project.

How to do it...

1. Navigate to the build definition named build-def-stg and click on the Queue button available on the right-hand side, as shown here:

2. In the Queue build for build-def-stg popup, please make sure that the Hosted VS2017 option is chosen in the Agent queue drop-down if you are using Visual Studio 2017 and click on the Queue button, as shown here:

3. After you click on the Queue button in the preceding screen capture, in just a few moments, the build will be queued and the message will be displayed as shown in the...