Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

Let's first decipher the generateTestCase.ts file. Notice at the bottom of the generateTestCase.ts file we have the following:

VSS.register(VSS.getContribution().id, context => {    let action = new GenerateTestCase();    return action;});VSS.notifyLoadSucceeded();

The first thing we do here is to register an object that this extension exposes to the host frame. We do that using the VSS.register() function. This takes two parameters:

• The first is the instanceId, which is the menu id we registered in the manifest. This should be a fully qualified name in the <publisherid>.<menu-id> format. We could hardcode the menu ID as onlyutkarsh.sample-work-item-menu., but using VSS.getContribution().id makes it simpler and automatically gets ...