{"id":230732,"date":"2020-09-22T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=230732"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:12:39","slug":"using-github-actions-in-visual-studio-is-as-easy-as-right-click-and-publish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/using-github-actions-in-visual-studio-is-as-easy-as-right-click-and-publish\/","title":{"rendered":"Using GitHub Actions in Visual Studio is as easy as right-click and Publish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Download the latest<\/span>\u00a0preview<\/span>\u00a0version of Visual Studio<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>try out the\u00a0<\/span>new\u00a0<\/span>ability to\u00a0<\/span>setup\u00a0<\/span>CI<\/span>\/<\/span>CD<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to Azure\u00a0<\/span>for\u00a0<\/span>projects<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>use GitHub\u00a0<\/span>to host your\u00a0<\/span>source repository<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With VS 16.8 Preview 3.1, for this feature to show up in Publish dialog, you need to go to Tools-Options-<\/span>Environment<\/span>-Preview Features and check the \u201cGitHub Actions Support in Publish” checkbox.\u00a0<\/span>Right<\/span>–<\/span>click on your project\u00a0<\/span>in Solution Explorer<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>select<\/span>\u00a0Publish\u00a0<\/span>from the context menu\u00a0<\/span>and follow the steps. If your project is\u00a0<\/span>using\u00a0<\/span>GitHub\u00a0<\/span>to host your\u00a0<\/span>source\u00a0<\/span>repository\u00a0<\/span>and the target is Azure\u00a0<\/span>App Service<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>you will get the option\u00a0<\/span>to use GitHub Actions<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This work is the result of talking to you, our users, about your daily coding habits. We identified an opportunity when some of you told us\u00a0<\/span>it is\u00a0<\/span>complicated<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and time consuming\u00a0<\/span>to get started with CI\/CD<\/span>, so you rely on Visual Studio Publish for deployment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Visual Studio will creat<\/span>e<\/span>\u00a0the GitHub Action workflow file<\/span>, including the deployment action to Azure App Service<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>The default\u00a0<\/span>trigge<\/span>r<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>\u201con push\u201d for your code in the default branch for your repository<\/span>. Visual Studio will also\u00a0<\/span>automatically download the publish profile from the Azure portal and store it as an\u00a0<\/span>encrypted<\/span>\u00a0secret in your GitHub<\/span>\u00a0repo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as required by the workflow.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>As soon as you\u00a0<\/span>commit and push<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the generated GitHub Action workflow file, deployment <\/span>to Azure\u00a0<\/span>begins<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Right\u00a0<\/span>now,<\/span>\u00a0this feature is only available for\u00a0<\/span>ASP.NET Core projects deployed to Azure App Service<\/span>\u00a0and Azure Functions projects<\/span>, but we are planning on expanding support in\u00a0<\/span>subsequent releases<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>We are excited for you to try it out and tell<\/span>\u00a0us\u00a0<\/span>what you\u00a0<\/span>think.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

P<\/span>lease use\u00a0<\/span>Developer Community<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>report a problem or\u00a0<\/span>suggest\u00a0<\/span>improvements<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Download the latest\u00a0preview\u00a0version of Visual Studio\u00a0and\u00a0try out the\u00a0new\u00a0ability to\u00a0setup\u00a0CI\/CD\u00a0to Azure\u00a0for\u00a0projects\u00a0that\u00a0use GitHub\u00a0to host your\u00a0source repository.\u00a0 With VS 16.8 Preview 3.1, for this feature to show up in Publish dialog, you need to go to Tools-Options-Environment-Preview Features and check the \u201cGitHub Actions Support in Publish” checkbox.\u00a0Right–click on your project\u00a0in Solution Explorer,\u00a0select\u00a0Publish\u00a0from the context menu\u00a0and follow the steps. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":255385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Download the latest\u00a0preview\u00a0version of Visual Studio\u00a0and\u00a0try out the\u00a0new\u00a0ability to\u00a0setup\u00a0CI\/CD\u00a0to Azure\u00a0for\u00a0projects\u00a0that\u00a0use GitHub\u00a0to host your\u00a0source repository.\u00a0 With VS 16.8 Preview 3.1, for this feature to show up in Publish dialog, you need to go to Tools-Options-Environment-Preview Features and check the \u201cGitHub Actions Support in Publish” checkbox.\u00a0Right–click on your project\u00a0in Solution Explorer,\u00a0select\u00a0Publish\u00a0from the context menu\u00a0and follow the steps. […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}