UWP Application Signin, Release, Distribute, Deploy With Azure DevOps Pipeline

Here in this article, we will create the pipelines from the scratch, we will create a certificate and save it under the secured files, we will use the certificate to signin the build in the pipeline, we will create variables for our pipeline, we will also use some of the existing tasks like, copy, archive etc and at the end, we will distribute our artifact to the app center

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Introduction

Building a UWP application is fun but releasing them not. At least that is the experience I had, I was facing a bunch of issues when I try to configure the pipeline to build and release to the app center. Yes, it includes the creation of a certificate too, and here we will see the best practice to handle your certificate. And we will also use the option Variables in the Azure DevOps.

Here in this article,

• we will create the pipelines from the scratch
• we will create a certificate and save it under the secured files
• we will use the certificate to signin the build in the pipeline
• we will create variables for our pipeline
• we will also use some of the existing tasks like, copy, archive etc
• and at the end, we will distribute…