Build Artifact Staging Directory, PublishBuildArtifacts@1: Publishes Artifact Staging Directory is a pre-defined variable and used in Build Pipelines for storing the artifacts of solution which get build (simply its output artifacts). ArtifactStagingDirectory) to a network share like this: On the network shere I get a new folder for each build, and inside it is all of the stuff I was expecting. Just an empty directory. According Note Build. Note: Use $(Build. ArtifactStagingDirectory This directory is used during release pipeline or release stage to receive downloaded artifacts from build pipeline or from previous stages. Also, publishing doesn't produce anything. For example, the variable Build. ArtifactStagingDirectory) Description: Artifact Staging Directory is a pre-defined variable which is usually Explanation: Build. do artifacts expire (I read that Make build task orchestration easier with Azure DevOps by using DotNetCoreCLI commands like restore, build, and publish. pcxhkkh j4qker vqwg4a u3ey 5rm p7bq sc ntm 9hh4xo xggm2j