Lesson 3: Creating a project template

Projects manage builds, dependencies, and artifacts. A project template is a reusable blueprint that defines a generic project.

Because project templates are reusable, you can apply the same standards to similar projects. Properties can be defined and the values supplied later by the projects created from the templates. A project template might always use a particular type of build script, for example, but the name or location of the script can vary by project.

In this lesson, you create a project template that you use later to create the tutorial project.

  1. On the left navigational panel, click Templates.
    The Projects tab is open by default .
  2. Click Create.
  3. In the Name field, type Demo Project Template.
  4. Click Save.
    The Main tab for the new project template is displayed.
  5. Click Build Pre-Processing, and click Edit..
  6. Click Agent Pool Selection, and then select the agent pool you created when you configured the tutorial system.
  7. Click Save.

Lesson checkpoint

In this lesson, you created the project template you use to build the tutorial project.

For more information about project templates, see Creating project templates.