As I help people create awesome build and release pipelines, I have found myself quite often needing to download something from somewhere to do something awesome. So, I have decided to write a build task to make it easier. Along came the Download File task: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=automagically.DownloadFile. This task allows you to download a file from anonymous sources or authenticated sources like Artifactory, or Nexus, or whatever. It's simple and yet pretty good task.
Later, I have realized that quite often when I download the file as a part of my build/release, I need to extract that file. So, I have released another task called Download and Extract File: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=automagically.DownloadExtractFile. Yes, I know it's not very creative name, but it's very descriptive. This task allows you to download a file from anonymous or authenticated sources and then extract it to the specified folder. This is a better task, I think.
Thanks for using my tasks. And, again thanks for reading.