Donovan Brown

In this post I will show you how to build a ASP.NET 5 1.0.0-rc1-update1 project with Visual Studio Team Services.

First make sure you have the latest version from https://get.asp.net.  Download and run the installer.  Once the installation is complete run the following command to get the latest version of the runtime.

dnvm upgrade

Now using Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 create a new ASP.NET 5 Web Application.

Commit your changes into Visual Studio Team Service. With all your code in source control, we can now create our build definition.

1. Log in to Visual Studio Team Service
2. Click the Build hub
3. Click the green plus 
4. Select the Visual Studio template
5. Click Next
6. Select your repository
7. Check the box for Continuous integration
8. Click Create

With the build created, we need to add the required tasks.

1. Click Add build step…
2. Select the Utility category
3. Click Add next to the PowerShell task
4. Click Close
5. Drag and drop the PowerShell task to the top
6. Select the PowerShell task 
7. Change the Type to Inline Script
8. Enter the following code for Inline Script (double click code to copy) 

   &{$Branch='dev';iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/Home/dev/dnvminstall.ps1'))}
   $gJson = gc -Path .\global.json -Raw -ErrorAction Ignore | ConvertFrom-Json -ErrorAction Ignore
   $dnxVersion = $gJson.sdk.version
   & $env:USERPROFILE\.dnx\bin\dnvm install $dnxVersion -Persistent
   dir -Path .\ -Filter project.json -Recurse | ForEach-Object { & dnu restore $_.FullName 2>1 }

   
9. Click Save
10. Give your build a name
11. Click OK
12. Click Queue build…
13. Click OK