azure-devops-extension-tasks/overview.md

This extension provides build and release tasks for packaging and publishing Azure Devops Extensions to the Visual Studio Marketplace. There are also tasks to share and install your extension to your Azure Devops organisation or Team Foundation Server.

How to use

After installing the extension, you can add one (or more) of the tasks to your pipeline. You can find an example YAML pipeline in the form of the pipeline which publishes this extension.

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

Available tasks

Azure DevOps

• Package: package a VSTS extension into an extension package (.VSIX) file
• Publish: (optionally) package and publish an extension (either privately or publicly) to the Visual Studio Marketplace
• Unpublish: unpublish an extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace
• Share: share an extension with an Azure DevOps organisation
• Install: install an extension to an Azure DevOps organisation or Team Foundation Server
• Query version: query an extension's version (to make it easy to increment on your next package or publish)
• Wait for validation: waits for the Marketplace validation to come through.

Visual Studio

• Publish: Publish a Visual Studio extension to the Visual Studio Marketplace

Required scopes

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

• Publish: All accessible organisations, Marketplace (publish)
• Unpublish: All accessible organisations, Marketplace (manage)
• Share: All accessible organisations, Marketplace (publish)
• Install: All accessible organisations or a specific Organisation, Extensions (read and manage), Marketplace (acquire)
• Query Version: All accessible organisations, Marketplace (read)
• Is Valid: All accessible organisations, Marketplace (read)

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, Utkarsh Shigihalli, Jesse Houwing for their contributions.

Feedback and issues

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