November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
10h 55m
English
A 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 tasks available in Azure DevOps 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 configured them. You can also rearrange the steps by dragging and dropping them in the pipeline section.
The build process starts by getting the source code from the chosen repository and downloading the required NuGet packages, and then starts the process ...