Dynamics 365 build tasks

This extension contains build tasks for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.

Available tasks

• Build summary task
• Execute best practices checks task
• Analyze build quality task

Build summary task

Generates a build quality summary based on compiler and best practice logs. It's listing up:

• Number of best practice violations per module
• Number of best practice violations per rule
• Number of todo's per module

It's looking for files with pattern *.xppbp.xml for best practice logs and *.xppc.xml for compiler logs

Results are shown in the build results as an extensions tab:

Parameters

• Directory: Directory where log files are located
• Filter pattern to skip modules: module mask to exclude from summary

Execute best practices checks task

Executes the best practice checks with various possibilities to enable certain rules or to run a given rule file.

Parameters

• Metadata path: root folder of the metadata, so where the modules can be found
• Log path: Directory where log files are located
• Filter pattern to skip modules: module mask to exclude from summary
• Generate CAR: Generates the CAR report, output in Logs/CAR directory
• Execute all rules: Runs all rules independent of the rules configured per module (removes the AxRuleSet/BPRules.xml file in every module folder)
• Override rule file: Path to a rule file. Runs the given rules of the rule file independent of the rules configured per module (copies the rules files to AxRuleSet/BPRules.xml in every module folder)

Advanced Options (hosted agents)

• Framework directory: folder where the framework binaries can be found (like xppbp.exe) depending on your nuget install, for example $(NuGetsPath)\$(ToolsPackage)
• Reference directories: folders used as a reference (like standard finance and operations application suite or platform), for example $(NuGetsPath)\$(PlatPackage)\ref\net40;$(NuGetsPath)\$(AppPackage)\ref\net40;$(MetadataPath);$(Build.BinariesDirectory)

Analyze build quality task

Examines the compiler and best practice logs and fails the build if needed. This task can force a build to not have compiler and/or best practice violations and/or open tasks.

Parameters

• Check best practices: checks the best practice logs/compiler logs for best practice warnings/errors/infos
• Check Todo's: checks the compiler logs for todo's'
• Check compiler warnings: checks the compiler logs for compiler warnings
• Log folder: Directory where log files are located
• Filter pattern to skip modules: module mask to exclude from analysis