Things with code

 A few weeks ago, working for a new customer, I was asked to create a custom task. Having done this before (a couple of times) I started up Visual Studio Code and then immediately got a feeling of déjà-vu. Yes, there is documentation and some examples of how to create a custom pipeline task and there are some simple explanations of how to use the mock runner to unit-test your code, but it is spread all over the place, some documentation is several years old so things have changed slightly and even in the standard Microsoft GitHub repository for Azure DevOps pipeline-tasks , not every task is set up the same way. So, since I was going to set up a complete pipeline for building, testing and packaging a custom task I decided that this time, I would at least capture all the basics so that a next time, I have everything ready out of the box and can focus on implementing the functionality instead of setting up all the plumbing. TLDR, here: https://github.com/fgiele/AzureDevOpsTasks  Multip