# azure-devops-extension-tasks

**Repository Path**: mirrors_microsoft/azure-devops-extension-tasks

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: azure-devops-extension-tasks
- **Description**: Pipeline tasks for Azure DevOps Extensions
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2026-10-03

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Azure DevOps Extension Tasks

This extension provides build and release tasks for packaging and publishing Azure Devops Extensions to the [Visual Studio Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com). There are also tasks to share and install your extension to your Azure Devops organization or Team Foundation Server.

## To use

[Learn more](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-devlabs.vsts-developer-tools-build-tasks) about this extension and install the extension into your Azure DevOps Organization via the Visual Studio Marketplace.

## Available tasks

Azure DevOps

* **Package**: package an Azure DevOps extension into an extension package (.VSIX) file
* **Publish**: (optionally) package and publish an extension (either privately or publicly) to the Visual Studio Marketplace
* **Unpublish**: unpublish an extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace
* **Share**: share an extension with an Azure DevOps organization
* **Install**: install an extension to an Azure DevOps organization
* **Query version**: query an extension's version (to make it easy to increment on your next package or publish)
* **Wait for validation**: waits for the Visual Studio Marketplace validation to come through.

Visual Studio

* **Publish**: Publish a Visual Studio extension to the Visual Studio Marketplace

### Required scopes

 When creating a personal access token for use by your pipeline, make sure the token has at least the following scopes for the task(s) you are using:

* **Publish**: `Marketplace (publish)`
* **Unpublish**: `Marketplace (manage)`
* **Share**: `Marketplace (publish)`
* **Install**: `Extensions (read and manage)`, `Marketplace (acquire)`
* **Query Version**: `Marketplace (read)`
* **Is Valid**: `Marketplace (read)`

![Permissions](./Metadata/Images/permissions.png)

## Contribute

1. From the root of the repo run `npm run initdev`. This will pull down the necessary modules and TypeScript declare files.
2. Run `npm run build` to compile the build tasks.
3. Run `npm run package` to create a .vsix extension package that includes the build tasks.