Creating the VS Marketplace publisher

Every extension that needs to be published to the marketplace needs to be published from a publisher. All extensions live under that publisher. Anyone can create the publisher by going to VS Marketplace management portal.

In this recipe, we will see how we can create a VS Marketplace publisher. In the next recipe, we will use this publisher while creating the task and also while publishing the task.

Getting ready

Creating the publisher is easy and to create one, you should have Microsoft account email address (@outlook.com/@hotmail.com for example).

Let's start creating a publisher:

1. Navigate to the VS Marketplace management portal by going to this URL: https://aka.ms/vsmarketplace-manage.
2. If you have not already signed in, you will get a prompt when using your Microsoft account:

3. Sign in using your Microsoft account. If you do not have a Microsoft account already, create one. You can also use your Azure Active Directory (AAD)-linked corporate account if you...