Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

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As we have seen in other recipes, a few of the fields such as name, id, publisher, and so on, are critical for defining the extension. We have covered these in the previous recipes. Let's dig deeper.

The key piece of information is in the contributions array. For defining a custom service endpoint, we add a contribution of the ms.vss-endpoint.service-endpoint-type type that targets ms.vss-endpoint.endpoint-types. 

Next, under the properties element, we have name, icon, and Display name fields that uniquely identify this custom endpoint. These are used to select this service connection in the pipeline task:

Tasks using a custom ...