Quick introduction into common patterns for the Azure DevOps Extension Tools. How to use them, where to find more information.

1. Azure DevOps Extension
Tools
DEPLOYING YOUR EXTENSIONS TO THE VISUAL STUDIO
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3. What’s in the
box?!

4. What’s in the
box?! NEW
THANKS UTKARSH!

5. Common patterns
GITFLOW
◦ One build for develop/features
◦ Publish Extension
◦ Override extension id
◦ Visibility: private
◦ Share: account-dev
◦ One build for master
◦ Publish Extension
◦ Visibility: public
TRUNK BASED DEVELOPMNT
◦ One build for master
◦ Package extension
◦ Visibility Public
◦ Publish release pipeline
◦ Publish private environment
◦ Override extension id
◦ Visibility Private
◦ Share: account-dev
◦ …
◦ Publish release environment

6. Gitflow pattern
Deploy publicly
Deploy privately
Share with myaccount-dev

7. Trunk based development
Deploy publicly
Deploy privately
Share with myaccount-dev
Deploy privately
Share with canary users

8. Weird patterns
DEPLOY DEVELOP AND RELEASE EXTENSION
TO A SINGLE ACCOUNT
◦ Package Extension
◦ Publish Private extension
◦ Put branch name in extension id
◦ Enable Override task id
◦ Share with myaccount
◦ Publish Public extension
◦ Use public extension id
◦ Share with myaccount
https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-relnote-ci-cd-tools-for-vsts-
extensions-1-1-75/

9. Multi-version
PACKAGE NEW AND OLD BUILD TASKS
◦ Use naming pattern
◦ Fix the major version number in the task.json
◦ Override task versions in task
◦ All tasks are versioned together
https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-relnote-ci-cd-tools-for-vsts-
extensions-1-1-75/

10. Recent changes
◦ Tool Installer task for tfx-cli
◦ Support for localized build tasks
◦ Renamed VSTS -> Azure DevOps
◦ Added Visual Studio Extension
Publish
Less recent changes
◦ Extension validation task
◦ Extension validation release gate
◦ Renamed VSTS -> Azure DevOps
https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-relnote-ci-cd-tools-for-vsts-extensions-1-1-75/
https://jessehouwing.net/azure-devops-extension-tasks-1-1-75/

11. https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-release-create-complex-release-gate/
https://github.com/jessehouwing/vsts-ServerTaskExpressionTester

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more scenarios!