Overview

This extension installs a task that can be used in Azure Pipelines to install .NET nanoFramework MSBuild components, allowing building .NET nanoFramework Solutions/Projects in Azure Pipelines.

The extension takes care of installing the appropriate components according to the Visual Studio version. Supported Visual Studio versions: 2019 and 2022.

Usage

To use this AZDO Task simply add the following to the pipeline yaml that's building a .NET nanoFramework solution/project. Please note that this Task has to be installed before it's used by msbuild or VSBuild Task.

An option parameter GitHubToken with a GtiHub personal access token can be passed to the task. It will be used to perform authenticated requests to GitHub API. This can be useful, for example, if there is the need to perform authenticated requests or to keep the API usage rate under control.

Another optional parameter usePreview (boolean) sets the usage of preview version of the VS extension downloaded from the Open VSIX gallery.

- task: InstallNanoMSBuildComponents@1
  displayName: Install .NET nanoFramework MSBuild components
  inputs:
    GitHubToken: '$(SECRET.TOKEN)'