Automatic build using Microsoft-hosted agents and Azure Pipelines

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Posted on by FlorinF

Hello !

I want to create a Azure Pipeline for D365FO automatic build using Microsoft-hosted agents and I'm confused about "Build solution" step.

I understand that in order to build a deployable package for the models in TFS, we need to provide a Visual Studio solution that can contain one or multiple *rnrproj projects.

Those projects must contain all the code for a model? Do I need to create *rnrproj project and drag in all the related model objects from AOT? This means that every time a developer add a new class, I need to update this project? If this it's an empty project, it must have a specific naming conversion? I don't understand how the process works.

I have in the TFS the main branch containing one or more models. What if I have to create a package only for one model ? How does the pipeline knows to build a package for a specific model since it has the reference to the whole main branch, which contain multiple models.

This is what i have:

Main/Dev branch and a specific Build folder which contains the empty project/soution:

I don't know what files(objects) I need to put into this project or how to properly create them in order to build the code for one model in the main branch.

This is the rest of the Pipeline:

Thank you.

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nmaenpaa 101,158 Moderator on at

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RE: Automatic build using Microsoft-hosted agents and Azure Pipelines

Hi,

I think that question was already answered: it will build the whole model.
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RE: Automatic build using Microsoft-hosted agents and Azure Pipelines

Thank you Nikolaos

So, If the project is empty, the PipeLine it will build a package for the model associated with the project:

Theoretically I can add objects from AOT to this project, like forms, classes etc. This means that the PipeLine will build a package that will only contain objects from the project or will build a package for the model RO regardless of what the project contains ?
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nmaenpaa 101,158 Moderator on at

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RE: Automatic build using Microsoft-hosted agents and Azure Pipelines

Each project has a property that tells which model it's related. For example your project in your screenshot is associated with "RO" model.

So, if you only want to build RO model, then your solution looks ok.

Normally you should anyway always build and deploy all your code.
FlorinF on at

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RE: Automatic build using Microsoft-hosted agents and Azure Pipelines

Hi Sergei,

But how can I associate a project in the solution with a model that I want to build ? Is the project name important ?

For example, I have in the main branch to models RO1 and RO2.

But I want to create a build only for model RO1. How the solution and project must be created? :Now I have something like this:

How the pipeLine knows which source files from the main branch will uses to build a package only for model RO1

Thank you for your time.
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nmaenpaa 101,158 Moderator on at

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RE: Automatic build using Microsoft-hosted agents and Azure Pipelines

Your solution should contain one (empty) project for each model that you want to include in your build.
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Sergei Minozhenko 23,091 on at

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RE: Automatic build using Microsoft-hosted agents and Azure Pipelines

Hi FlorinF,

You don't need to include any objects in the VS projects for the build pipeline. The build solution should contain projects associated with models you want to build and they can be empty, but just be sure that the solution contains all project = models you want to build.