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Adding and Deploying Custom Tasks

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How To Deploy a Task Zip File

Below you can find a summary of the steps required to deploy a custom task zip file. You may also wish to review the similar topic on deploying a task assembly. It is highly recommended that you ensure you have also reviewed the conceptual documentation on how Explorer loads custom task assemblies.

Deploying a Task Assembly

  1. Build and test your task assembly.
  2. Ensure the Version and Culture are set as you require.
  3. Complete the strong name of the task assembly by signing it.
  4. Create a zip file containing the task assembly and all required supporting files.
  5. Copy the zip file to the location from where your users will download it. Ensure this location is accessible to your users.
  6. Update the NMF file containing information about your task with the correct assembly name, version, culture, public key token. Also ensure the download location is correctly set to the location of your zip file.

Now you can allow your users to access your task, either by opening a map NMF which contains the details of the task, or by distributing a task NMF which contains the details of your task, allowing users to add the task to an existing map.