Pipe Azure DevOps Data to CSV in PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets Module for Azure DevOps is a standard PowerShell module offering straightforward integration with Azure DevOps. Below, you will find examples of using our AzureDevOps Cmdlets with native PowerShell cmdlets.

Creating a Connection to Your Azure DevOps Data

You can connect to your Azure DevOps account by providing the Organization and PersonalAccessToken.

Obtaining a Personal Access Token

To generate one, log in to your Azure DevOps Organization account and navigate to Profile -> Personal Access Tokens -> New Token. The generated token will be displayed.

If you wish to authenticate to Azure DevOps using OAuth refer to the online Help documentation for an authentication guide.

$conn = Connect-AzureDevOps  -AuthScheme "$AuthScheme" -Organization "$Organization" -ProjectId "$ProjectId" -PersonalAccessToken "$PersonalAccessToken"

Selecting Data

Follow the steps below to retrieve data from the Builds table and pipe the result into to a CSV file:

Select-AzureDevOps -Connection $conn -Table Builds | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myBuildsData.csv -NoTypeInformation

You will notice that we piped the results from Select-AzureDevOps into a Select-Object cmdlet and excluded some properties before piping them into an Export-Csv cmdlet. We do this because the CData Cmdlets append Connection, Table, and Columns information onto each "row" in the result set, and we do not necessarily want that information in our CSV file.