Beginning Build and Release Management with TFS 2017 and VSTS: Leveraging Continuous Delivery for Your Business

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Chaminda Chandrasekara, Beginning Build and Release Management with TFS 2017 and VSTS, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2811-1_13

13. Extending Build and Release Tasks on Your Own

Chaminda Chandrasekara¹ 

(1)Colombo, Sri Lanka

You will learn how to set up your Visual Studio environment to enable extension development for VSTS/TFS. Developing a build and release task and publishing and using it in build/release will give you the capability to add your own functional components to TFS build and release management.

Prerequisites: You have Visual Studio 2015 and VSTS/TFS. In your Visual Studio environment, npm is available. If not, get npm from https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm and set up Node.js and npm.

Lesson 13.01 – Update npm and Add ...