reading azure pipeline environment variables in c#

Question

I have set environment variable in azure yaml pipeline like this

- task: PowerShell@2
  inputs:
targetType: 'inline'
script: |      $env:MY_VARIABLE = "$(my-value)"
$env:MY_VARIABLE >> test.txt
...

when I run the pipeline and go to published artifact in summary section of the pipeline, I can see that test.txt has correct value. Is there a way I can read this MY_VARIABLE in c# code, which is going to be run with a specflow task in this yaml pipeline

Answer 1

You can't read Azure Pipelines variable directly in C#. However, each Azure Pipeline variable is mapped to an environment variable (except for secrets). You can read about this here .

So, all that you need is Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable .

And of course you need to run your code on pipeline, not compile create package and then run somewhere else.