SharePoint DevOps tasks

These are the tasks generally required for building a sharepoint add-in successfully in Azure DevOps:

• Use vs2017-win2019 agent in devops build pipeline due to sharepoint.targets error
• ASP.Net website
• Set output directory to 'bin\' rather than 'bin\debug'
• Open project property pages (right click -> properties)
• Open Build tab
• Set the 'Output Path' property to 'bin\'
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-change-the-build-output-directory?view=vs-2019
• Build Pipeline
• Add three publishing profiles with following settings

Variable	DEV
Publish Method	Web Deploy
Server	<Dev IIS Server name>
Site Name
User Name	<user name>
Destination Url
Configuration	Debug
Db connection string	#{connectionstring1}#

• Remove Microsoft.SharePoint.Client and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime dlls and add packages SharePoint.Client and SharePoint.Client.Runtime from nuget
• Add Microsoft.SharePoint.Client and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime dlls to sourcecontrol
• Use nuget.config in restore nuget packages task
• Add Microsoft.IndetityModel.dll and Microsoft.IndetityModel.Extensions.dll to source control
• Replace AppForSharePoint16WebToolkit v4.0 with v.3.1.5
• Add publishing profiles to source control

• Sharepoint addin project
• Add a list to make sure app web is provisioned