August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 54m
English
Build definition is just a blueprint of the tasks that are required for building a software application. In this recipe, we have used a default template to create the build definition. We can choose a blank template and create the definition by choosing the tasks available in the VSTS as well.
When you run the build definition (either manually or automatically, which will be discussed in the subsequent recipes), each of the tasks will be executed in the order in which you have configured them. You can also rearrange the steps by dragging and dropping them in the Process section.
The build process starts with getting the source code from the chosen repository and then downloading the required NuGet packages and then starts ...