Building ASP.NET Core 1.1 Web App with Team Services

ASP.NET Core 1.1 is available with Visual Studio 2017 and it is based on .csproj to provide us with a consistent experience inside Visual Studio. .csproj will be the way forward with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft encourages everyone developing on ASP.NET Core to move to Visual Studio 2017. You can see the recommendation in https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/03/07/announcing-net-core-tools-1-0/ quoted below. Microsoft will not be updating VS 2015 based tools for .NET core anymore.

Setup yo team

yo team is a great NPM package by Donovan Brown, to automate creation of build and release pipelines. You can use it to generate app with CI/CD in Team Foundation Server 2017 or Visual Studio Team Services. In this post let’s look at how to get it installed, for you to use it to generate CI/CD pipelines

The first requirement is to install node.js and npm latest. You can download it from https://nodejs.org/en/download/. Instruction on installing on windows is here. You can verify the installed version of node and npm by running below commands.