Answering Exam Question: Making a Custom Package Available in Visual Studio IDE
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Your development team is building a new web solution by using the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).
You need to make a custom package available to all the developers. The package must be managed centrally, and the latest version must be available for consumption in Visual Studio automatically.
Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
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A. B. C. D. E. F.ABE
B: By using your custom NuGet package feed within your Azure DevOps (previously VSTS) instance, you'll be able to distribute your packages within your organization with ease.
Start by creating a new feed.
A: We can publish, pack and push the built project to our NuGet feed.
E: Consume your private NuGet Feed
Go back to the Packages area in Azure DevOps, select your feed and hit Connect to feed. You'll see some instructions for your feed, but it's fairly simple to set up.
Just copy your package source URL, go to Visual Studio, open the NuGet Package Manager, go to its settings and add a new source. Choose a fancy name, insert the source URL. Done.
Search for your package in the NuGet Package Manager and it should appear there, ready for installation. Make sure to select the appropriate feed (or just all feeds) from the top right select box.
https://medium.com/medialesson/get-started-with-private-nuget-feeds-in-azure-devops-8c7b5f022a68To make a custom package available to all developers using Visual Studio IDE, you need to perform the following three actions:
Publish the package to a feed: The first step is to publish the custom package to a feed. A feed is a repository that stores packages in a central location. The package can be published to a public or private feed, depending on the requirements. This can be done by using the NuGet CLI or Visual Studio.
Create a new feed in Azure Artifacts: The next step is to create a new feed in Azure Artifacts. Azure Artifacts is a package management tool that integrates with Azure DevOps. It provides a central location for managing and sharing packages. Creating a new feed in Azure Artifacts ensures that the custom package is managed centrally and can be easily accessed by developers.
Add the package URL to the NuGet Package Manager settings in Visual Studio: Finally, you need to add the package URL to the NuGet Package Manager settings in Visual Studio. This allows developers to automatically consume the latest version of the package from the feed. To do this, open Visual Studio, go to Tools > Options > NuGet Package Manager > Package Sources, and add the URL of the feed. Once this is done, developers can search for and install the package from the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio.
Therefore, the correct actions to make a custom package available to all developers using Visual Studio IDE are:
- Publish the package to a feed
- Create a new feed in Azure Artifacts
- Add the package URL to the NuGet Package Manager settings in Visual Studio
