C# developers often use string.Format in handling string. string.Format the { and } is used as a special character to identify the parameters.
For example:
scrollDepth = “10”
string.Format("DOWN {0}",scrollDepth) generates a string DOWN 10.
But what if a { should be used as a value in the string. Is there a way to include { in the string?
To escape a { you can {{. So if you want to get the resultant string as “{DOWN 10}” the syntax to use is
string.Format("{{DOWN {0}}}",scrollDepth)
VSTS allows great flexibility with it’s new web based build and release management features. You have several templates which can be used to create build and release definitions you need quickly. Lots of out of the box tasks allow you to further customize your definitions to support the steps that you need to perform during a build or a deployment. Visual Studio Marketplace is getting more and more components added to it, allowing you to find a task for almost any build deploy step you may require to perform. Taking the steps to the next level, you can now even generate your build/release pipeline with Visual Studio 2017, after adding the extension Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio.
Let’s walkthrough the steps of generating a CD pipeline for an MVC Web Application, to allow it to be deployed to Azure App Service.
TFS/VSTS new build and release management is providing great flexibility in implementing CI,CD pipelines. To further enhance the flexibility a new feature “Conditional Tasks” is introduced to Tasks of build and release management. This was a user voice request that got implemented and available as preview in Team Services. This new conditional control option let’s you execute a task base on few predefined conditions and using custom conditions.
Predefined conditions
