Build a dotnet application

• Project: Refer Here
• branch: master
• pre-req’s:
  • git
  • dotnet 7 sdk Refer Here

sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y git dotnet-sdk-7.0

• Manual steps:

git clone https://github.com/nopSolutions/nopCommerce.git
cd nopCommerce
git checkout master
dotnet build src/NopCommerce.sln -c Release
dotnet test -c Release src/Tests/Nop.Tests/Nop.Tests.csproj -o TestResults/
dotnet publish src/Presentation/Nop.Web/Nop.Web.csproj -c Release -o published/

• Dotnet projects: have two modes of building
  • Debug
  • Release
• Command refernces
  • build: Refer Here
  • test: Refer Here
  • publish: Refer Here

Azure DevOps Pipeline

• Our agent is still default
• build steps

dotnet build src/NopCommerce.sln -c Release
dotnet test -c Release src/Tests/Nop.Tests/Nop.Tests.csproj -o TestResults/
dotnet publish src/Presentation/Nop.Web/Nop.Web.csproj -c Release -o published/

• When should the project be built
  • option 1: Whenever code is pushed to some branch
  • option 2: At schedule time
  • option 3: On Pull Request
• Sections in Azure DevOps pipeline yaml
  • trigger (option 1) Refer Here
  • schedules (option 2) Refer Here and Refer Here
  • pr (option 3)
• Crontab Refer Here
• Pipeline which i have built so far

---
pool: default

trigger:
  - master

steps:
  - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
    inputs:
      command: build
      projects: src/NopCommerce.sln
      configuration: Release
  - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
    inputs:
      command: test
      projects: "**/*.Tests.csproj"
      publishTestResults: true

• Exercise: add the publish step and also zip the files after publish
• change the names displayed during build to
  • build the code
  • test the code
  • publish the code