Update release-7.0 for TS7 tagged releases

[Jake Bailey (jakebailey)]

Pull in some required changes for the release branch to function.

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🔵 Needs a closer look

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Pull request overview

Updates release-branch Azure Pipelines for the 7.0 release flow, including prerelease packaging, renamed build resources, npm registry configuration, and pinned VSCE setup.

Changes:

• Renames release build pipeline references.
• Adds build-number prerelease identifiers.
• Centralizes pinned VSCE setup and updates npm registry configuration.

File summaries

File	Description
tools/pipelines/typescript-publish.yml	Uses release build artifacts and shared VSCE setup.
tools/pipelines/typescript-build.yml	Adds prerelease versioning to release tasks.
tools/pipelines/steps/setup-vsce.yml	Installs the pinned VSCE version.
tools/pipelines/steps/setup-node-npm-ci.yml	Updates npm registry configuration.

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[Copilot]

🔵 Needs a closer look

The package smoke test must compare the normalized compiler version exactly rather than using a substring check.

Review details

Suppressed comments (1)

Herebyfile.mjs:1972

• This substring check can pass for the wrong compiler version (for example, expected 7.0.3 also matches output containing 17.0.3), so a broken package can pass the smoke test. Compare the normalized --version output with the expected Version ${getVersion()} value instead.

        assert(versionOutput.includes(getVersion()), `Expected version output to contain ${getVersion()}, got ${versionOutput.trim()}`);

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[Copilot]

🔵 Needs a closer look

Production signing and publishing behavior depends on external Azure pipeline resources that cannot be validated locally.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The package validation test currently fails because it omits the required ES5 target.

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