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Azure DevOps Pipelines–A local file header is corrupt

A colleague contacted me with the following question; he tried to run a specific Azure Pipelines build but before even one build task could be executed, the build failed.

I asked him to send me the logs and he shared the following screenshot:

As you can see the build fails in the ‘Job initialization’ phase while downloading a specifc task ‘VersionAssemblies’.

The strange this was than when I searched for this build task I couldn’t find it between the list of installed extensions on the Azure DevOps server.

I took a look at the Azure DevOps marketplace and even there this specific build task was non-existent. Strange!

At least this explained the error message I got, as the build pipeline probably couldn’t find the task either.

In the end I fixed it by introducing an alternative build task that achieved the same goal(updating the AssemblyInfo with a build number).

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