I am getting below error while publishing vsts task using "Publish Visual Studio Extension" task in Azure pipeline:
VSSDK: error VsixPub0006 : The publish manifest from 'D:\a\143\s\myproject\vss-extension.json' contains some invalid entries: Encountered an unsupported category: Azure Pipelines..
I have added categories in manifest file see below, But I observed the error is because of the category
"categories": [
"Azure Pipelines",
"Azure Repos",
"Azure Boards"
],
I can publish the task manually in the MarketPlace. But while trying to publish the task using "Publish Visual Studio Extension" task, I got above error. If I remove category section in manifest file, then vsix file cannot be created. Please suggest why the task is failing and how can we publish vstsextension.
Those categories are for Azure DevOps extensions and for those you'll need to use the Publish Azure DevOps Extension task, not the Publish Visual Studio Extension task.
- task: PublishAzureDevOpsExtension@3
name: 'publishDev'
inputs:
connectTo: 'VsTeam'
connectedServiceName: 'Jesse Houwing'
fileType: 'vsix'
vsixFile: '$(Pipeline.Workspace)/vsix/vsts-developer-tools-build-tasks.vsix'
publisherId: 'jessehouwing'
extensionId: 'vsts-developer-tools-build-tasks'
extensionTag: '-dev'
updateTasksVersion: false
extensionVisibility: 'privatepreview'
shareWith: 'jessehouwing-dev'
noWaitValidation: true
See:
If you are publishig to an 'old' TFS instance, you may need to use an older version of tfx
and use the old category names.
"categories": [
- "Build and release"
+ "Azure Pipelines"
],
See: