create build zip on Azure DevOps Server like github

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Currently, I am using Azure DevOps Server for managing my projects. Before that I used GitHub.

Github has a release feature form where we can download source code of any previous release. As here Release list preview

So, does anyone know how do I just create a source code zip of the project in azure DevOps which stores on a server and whenever I need it? I can download zip of that version source code like Github.

Anything similar where I can store full source code as zip of that version. so in the future whenever I need the source code of the project I can get it any time.

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You would need to associate an Azure pipeline in order to release artifacts and artifact sources

  • A release is a collection of artifacts in your DevOps CI/CD processes.
  • An artifact is a deployable component of your application.

Azure Pipelines can deploy artifacts that are produced by a wide range of artifact sources, and stored in different types of artifact repositories.

That can include the use of Archive Files task, in order to generate the same kind of "source code (zip)" seen with GitHub.
Example (from here, by Mauricio Díaz Orlich), to be adapted to your case:

- task: ArchiveFiles@2
  displayName: 'Compress Files'
  inputs:
    rootFolderOrFile: '$(Build.BinariesDirectory)'
    includeRootFolder: false
    archiveType: '7z'
    sevenZipCompression: 'maximum'
    archiveFile: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/$(Build.BuildNumber).zip'
    replaceExistingArchive: true
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