venzhyk / vsts-tasks

VSTS tasks that helps manage Release and Build pipelines

VSTS Tasks

Tasks for Visual Studio Team Services

Create Release Task

Creates new release as part of current release pipe line.

This task requires Generic Service Endpoint to your project on VSTS service. Step by step instruction here

Options

0. Select VSTS Service Endpoint
1. Select linked release from drop down menu
2. Choose which environment should be trigered
   • Environment should be setup for automatic start
   • All other environments autostart will be suppressed
3. Choose where to get artifacts for linked release
   • Task can reuse artifacts from current release
   • Or, use latest available artifacts from linked release
4. Task can create a draft release
5. Add any suffix to linked release description
6. Choose if you want to wait until linked release finish
   • Current release will fail if child release is failed or canceled
   • Just triger child release and successfully finish current task
7. Set timeout, after which child release will be treated as failed

Disclaimer

There are no any commitments to support or to enhance current functionality.

No guarantee that any issue or feature request will be addressed. All sources are provided as is.

However, you are welcome to use and copy all source codes. Also, you might create a pull-request and it might be accepted.

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vsts-tasks's Issues

Exception calling "Join" with "2" argument(s)

Any idea on below errors running this task?

##[error]Exception calling "Join" with "2" argument(s): "Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: values"

Need to add "UseBasicParsing"

On the hosted VSTS agent I get this error: "The response content cannot be parsed because the Internet Explorer engine is not available."

IE has never been ran on these machines - not sure if there is some work around, but apparently specifying the "-UseBasicParsing" flag on your Invoke-WebRequest will solve the issue as well.