AppVeyor explained

AppVeyor
Developer:	AppVeyor Systems Inc.
Platform:	Web
Genre:	Continuous integration

AppVeyor is a hosted, distributed continuous integration service used to build and test projects hosted on GitHub and other source code hosting services (including GitLab and Bitbucket) on a Microsoft Windows virtual machine, as well as Ubuntu Linux virtual machines. AppVeyor is a privately-held Canadian corporation founded in 2011.^[1]

AppVeyor is configured using a Web UI, or by adding a file named appveyor.yml, which is a YAML format text file, to the root directory of the code repository.

Azure DevOps includes AppVeyor integration.^{[2] [3]}

On 12 November 2014 Microsoft released many parts of their .NET Framework as open-source .NET Core on GitHub, and AppVeyor integration was added to some of these repositories.^{[4] [5]}

See also

• Jenkins
• Travis CI
• Comparison of continuous integration software

Notes and References

1. Web site: About AppVeyor. 2019-03-16. www.appveyor.com.
2. New API Released for Visual Studio Online. Visual Studio Magazine. 2014.
3. Web site: Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, support for Apache Cordova, ASP.NET vNext preview, and more. The Next Web. 12 May 2014.
4. Web site: .NET Core Open Source Update. Microsoft Developer Blogs. 28 January 2015 .
5. Web site: 米MS、.NET 2015のプレビュー公開と.NET Coreオープンソース化に対する反響と、今後の予定について紹介：CodeZine（コードジン）. codezine.jp. 21 November 2014 . 2015-11-10.