Export/Import Build Definition

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Export and Import your build definitions. Useful for recreating all the build steps, variables, schedules, etc in a different team project.

See the change log for changes and road map.

Features

• Version control your definitions (exported file is a JSON file, which can be checked-in in to your source control as any other file).
• Avoid manually duplicating the definition in another team project/account.
• No need to manually add steps and set their values.
• The extension also validates and highlights any missing service endpoints.

Note: The extension only supports new (non XAML) build definitions.

Export build definition

• Right-click and click Export on the build definition you would like to export.
• You will be prompted save the definition as a file.
• Save the file with JSON extension.

Import build definition

• Right click on any existing build definitions and click on Import.

• You will be prompted to upload a build definition file.

• You can either drag and drop a file or use the Browse button to select the file you want to import.

• Once you upload the file, the file will be parsed and the dialog will highlight you if any issues with the definition.

  

• Click Import. If import is successful, you will have your build created, with all your steps, variables, schedules and other build definition parameters.

Get Started

To contribute to this project, you'll need to do a few things first:

• Fork the project on GitHub
• Clone it to your computer
• Install Visual Studio Code
• Open the the folder you cloned in Code.
• Run npm install when in the directory you cloned (directory containing package.json file).

To install local fork into your on-premise TFS (TFS 2017 and above) using VSIX, run npm run package:dev which will create the VSIX file. You can then upload it into TFS by following steps mentioned here.

You can also automate the publishing step by running npm run publish:dev command.

Finally, To see the Export and Import menu items, you need to run the web pack dev server by running npm run dev command.

License

MIT