Colin's ALM Corner Custom Build Tasks

Overview

This repo contains custom tasks that meant to be used with Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server.

Uploading Tasks

You need to upload these tasks to your TFS / VSTS server.

1. Clone the repo
2. Install [tfx-cli] (https://github.com/Microsoft/tfs-cli)
3. Run npm install in the root folder.
4. Run npm install in each Task folder.
5. Run tfx login to login to your server.
6. Run tfx build tasks upload --task-path <path to task folder> to upload a task, where is the path to the Task folder of the task you want to upload

The task should now be available on your TFS / VSO.

Tasks

The following tasks are available:

1. Version Assemblies

   This task versions assemblies according to the build number. More...

2. Docker Publish

   This task performs docker build and (optionally) docker run to deploy your app to a docker host. More...

3. Replace Tokens

   This task replaces tokens in a file using Environment variables. More...

4. Azure Web Deploy

   This task executes WebDeploy to publish a WebDeploy package to an Azure Web App. More...

Changing the Code

The easiest way to open the source is to clone the repo and open in VSCode. If you change the .ts files, then run build (ctrl-shift-b) to compile the .js files.

Creating the Extension Package

Help Pages can be found here.

To compile the extension, update the version number in the extension-manifest.json file and run:

tfx extension create --manifest-globs .\extension-manifest.json

Upload to the marketplace by singing in to your publisher profile.