AppVeyor Github Automatic Build and Releases

AppVeyor.txt

Settings (from UI)
Note: You can use web UI to adjust most settings, OR use appveyor.yml in your repo.
(cannot use both, except for a few limited settings. using yml file allows some advanced settings that are not available in the web UI)

General
- Project name
- Next Build : You only need to adjust this, if you do builds manually (and the previous build or release already exists)
- Branches to build: can set selected branches, "master"
- [x] do not build tags
- [x] Do not build feature branches with open Pull Requests 
- [ ] Do not build on "Push" events *Dont enable this, otherwise pushing to repository doesnt trigger build
- [x] Do not build on "Pull request" events

Environment
- Can select build image "vs2017" (default was vs2015)

Build
- Configuration : Release
- After build script, "CMD", use this to zip multiple files in one zip
7z a PixelArtTool.zip %APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER%\PixelArtTool\bin\Release\*.exe %APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER%\PixelArtTool\bin\Release\*.exe.config

Artifacts
- Path to artifact: PixelArtTool.zip
- Deployment name: deploy
- type: auto

Deployment
- Deployment provider: Github Releases
- Github authentication token: get yours from https://github.com/settings/tokens
- Artifact(s) to deploy: deploy    (this is the deployment name from artifacts page)

Badges
- you can get your badge image here "build passing"

export YAML
- if you want to use some advanved features, export yaml, place that in repo root
- note that you need to use secure variables for the token or other secrets using https://ci.appveyor.com/tools/encrypt
    - paste your auth-token here, then get your secure variable and use that in yml file
- Attached example yml below (builds only on commit message that has "#build")

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References
- if want to build only on specific commit message, need to use yml file https://www.appveyor.com/docs/how-to/filtering-commits/#include-commits
- artifacts means "files that are picked, to be included in the deployment"

appveyor.yml

version: 1.0.{build}
branches:
  only:
  - master
skip_tags: true
skip_branch_with_pr: true
configuration: Release
only_commits:
  message: /#build/
build:
  verbosity: minimal
after_build:
- cmd: 7z a PixelArtTool.zip %APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER%\PixelArtTool\bin\Release\*.exe %APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER%\PixelArtTool\bin\Release\*.exe.config
artifacts:
- path: PixelArtTool.zip
  name: deploy
deploy:
- provider: GitHub
  auth_token:
    secure: .....
  artifact: deploy

z-errors.md

Error creating GitHub release: Error reading repository '.../...' releases: 401 - Unauthorized

• Generate new github personal access token https://github.com/settings/tokens
• make it secret variable https://ci.appveyor.com/tools/encrypt
• paste into appveyor.yaml