Multiline string in Azure Pipelines

Question

Can I use a multiline YAML string in Azure Pipelines?

Using the ASP.NET Core (.NET Framework) template I tried multilining the msbuildArgs but that didn

Answer 1

You can just put ' in the start and the end of the msbuildArgs:

- task: VSBuild@1
  displayName: 'Build solution **\*.sln'
  inputs:
    vsVersion: latest
    msbuildArgs: '/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package 
    /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true'