AppVeyor

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AppVeyor
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Developer(s) AppVeyor Systems Inc.
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Type Continuous integration
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AppVeyor is a hosted, distributed continuous integration service used to build and test projects hosted on GitHub and other source code hosting services (including GitLab and Bitbucket) on a Microsoft Windows virtual machine, as well as Ubuntu Linux virtual machines. AppVeyor is a privately-held Canadian corporation founded in 2011. [1]

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AppVeyor is configured using a Web UI, or by adding a file named appveyor.yml, which is a YAML format text file, to the root directory of the code repository.

Azure DevOps includes AppVeyor integration. [2] [3]

On 12 November 2014 Microsoft released many parts of their .NET Framework as open-source .NET Core on GitHub, and AppVeyor integration was added to some of these repositories. [4] [5]

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References

  1. "About AppVeyor". www.appveyor.com. Retrieved 2019-03-16.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. "New API Released for Visual Studio Online". Visual Studio Magazine . 2014.
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