Visual Studio Marketplace serves as a marketplace for Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code extensions, as well as pay-for-usage extensions such as the Artifacts extension, and Test Manager extension. It also sells subscriptions for Microsoft products (HockeyApp, Xamarin University, and so on). According to Microsoft, at the time of writing, VS Marketplace has more than 8,000 extensions and close to six thousand publishers. What's more, 130,ooo+ users and developers have been visiting the marketplace in search of extensions.
As you will see from a few of the following recipes, writing extensions is effortless. All you need is a basic knowledge of web development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you are interested in writing just build and release pipeline tasks, even knowledge of PowerShell is enough. If you have a lot of your useful utility PowerShell scripts hidden in your organization and want to make it useful for the rest of the world,...