Visual Studio Extension not compatible with Visual Studio 2019 (Preview)

[ppluijten]

The Visual Studio Extensions for Service Fabric Mesh is only compatible with VS 2017; is there an ETA for availability for VS 2019?

[D3MaxT]

2019 has an officially supported release now (RC) Any ETA on this? @BigMorty

Thank you for the hard work!

[orilon]

Hi @BigMorty & team, Firstly, thank you for all your efforts! Can you share when we could expect the SFM extension, please? Thanks again for all your hard work!

[aloneguid]

Please please please

[BigMorty]

Hello folks and very sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Currently we only have a SF Mesh extension for Visual Studio 2017. I will let you know if this changes.

[tikluganguly]

Hi @BigMorty, any updates on Service Fabric Mesh for VS 2019?

[4imble]

I uninstalled VS2017 weeks ago. As someone completely new to SFM and trying to learn it's annoying that I'll have to reinstall it to give it a go. Not necessarily complaining but this is likely to put others off as they fall into the same situation. 2019 has been out for a while now and all of my other extensions are compatible already (hence me uninstalling 2017)

[BigMorty]

We are working with the Service Fabric (SF) team as they evolve the SF Mesh app model and Mesh/Atlas control plane as mentioned in this session at Build, Build Mission Critical .NET microservices - BRK3047. There are currently no plans to release the existing SF Mesh tooling for Visual Studio 2019. The best solution at this time is to install Visual Studio 2017 which works great side-by-side with Visual Studio 2019.

[andreujuanc]

No current plans for SF Mesh tools for VS2019 can mean two things:

1. Service fabric mesh is not the big thing we thought it was and it's just a side project
2. Something is being redesigned from scratch and the tooling will have to change anyway, so why invest on it.

I understand that scenario n1 is very unlikely since MS has been showing off with mesh a lot, so then, why the secret? This is not a product that you buy and that it's, we are developers and need to invest as well , and sometimes "bet" on technology stacks in order to succeed.

For example, if this continues, people might recommend other solutions for orchestration. which might, in turn, hurt the product adoption.

Current tooling has lots of flaws that need to be addressed in an agile way. One release every year or so, will not satisfy the demand.

Hope this feedback helps.

Cheers

[BigMorty]

2 – The Service Fabric team is evolving the SF Mesh app model which will assuredly change how the tools need to work. We are engaged with them on this effort.

[andreujuanc]

Good to know! :) Just keep us updated! :)

[rmagruder]

This is why people Microsoft has a reputation for being half-baked. I've been poring over the Getting Started documents and hitting a dead-end because the tooling has not been updated to support it. I'm seriously not sure what I'm supposed to do at this point. I'm seriously not on board with installing an old version of Visual Studio here.

[aloneguid]

@rmagruder Mesh is in early PREVIEW so there is no reason to complain. As team announced before, the model is evolving, so I'd think the new extension will target 2019 and bring new model at the same time. What's stopping you from playing in VS2017? They play well side by side.

[rmagruder]

Nothing is stopping me from 'playing'. Except it sounds like I'd be more or less wasting my time as they will change everything again.

[hanabi1224]

+1 uninstalled vs2017 after vs2019 GA, looks like I will need to reinstall it. : (

[bobwah]

over a year now...

[danvanderboom]

Any progress on this 18 months later?

[dazinator]

Would love some update on this... Want to know if SF Mesh is going to be a viable tech stack for us in 2021 :-(

[1TheMuffinMan]

Bummers. I was excited about mesh and then found my way here. Looks like it's dead.