CI/CD Tools for VSTS Extensions

This extension provides build and release tasks for packaging and publishing Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) extensions to the Visual Studio Marketplace. There are also tasks to share and install your extension to your VSTS account.

Release Notes

• EXPERIMENTAL - Added support for generating build task Id's based on publisher, extension id and taskname.

Tasks included

• Package: package a VSTS extension into an extension package (.VSIX) file
• Publish: publish an extension (either privately or publicly) to the Visual Studio Marketplace
• Share: share a private extension with a VSTS account so it can be installed
• Install: install an extension to a VSTS account
• Query version: query an extension's version (to make it easy to increment on your next package or publish)

How to use

After installing the extension, you can add one (or more) of the tasks to a new or existing build definition or release definition

If you plan to publish to the Marketplace, you will need to create a personal access token.

Required scopes

When creating a personal access token for use by your build/release, make sure the token has at least the following scopes for the task(s) you are using:

• Publish: All Accounts, Marketplace (publish)
• Share: All Accounts, Marketplace (publish)
• Install: All Accounts or a Specific Account, Extensions (read and manage), Marketplace
• Query Version: All Accounts, Marketplace

Get the source

The source for this extension is on GitHub. Take, fork, and extend.

Contribute

This extension was created by Microsoft with help from the community. We'd like to thank Wouter de Kort and Jesse Houwing for their contributions.

Feedback and issues

If you have feedback or issues, please send an email or file an issue on GitHub