Tutorial

[cadayton]

Might there be a tutorial that shows how to use Project Manager. This is about the 5th time I've tried using the extension and each time I go down the never ending rabbit hole on making Project Manager become useful tool. Anyway, life is too short to devote a lot of time to figure this extension out.

[alefragnani]

Hi @cadayton ,

What do you miss, in the Readme file, which makes you think the extension needs a tutorial?

I mean, what aren’t you being able/have difficulties to do? Is the extension difficult to use or understand its concepts? Aren’t you being able to save or locate/switch projects?

I’ll be happy to improve the extension for new users. That’s one of the reasons I added a Welcome Message on the Side Bar in recent releases. But to improve the documentation, I need to know what is missing.

Hope this helps

[cadayton]

I'm just looking for basic kick start documentation that helps me understand the value of using Project Manager. What I'm wanting to avoid is burning up a weekend of time trying to understand how to use the tool. I guessing there is some real value to using Project Manager.

Like I said in the prior email, I'm hitting a roadblock on understanding the benefits of using Project Manager mainly because I can't seem to get it off the ground running.

I'm not trying to be harsh. Just needing basic guidance about using the extension if it exists.

Craig Dayton cadayton@protonmail.com 360-466-8778 https://keybase.io/cadayton/chat

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Hi @cadayton ,

What do you miss, in the Readme file, which makes you think the extension needs a tutorial?

I mean, what aren’t you being able/have difficulties to do? Is the extension difficult to use or understand its concepts? Aren’t you being able to save or locate/switch projects?

I’ll be happy to improve the extension for new users. That’s one of the reasons I added a Welcome Message on the Side Bar in recent releases. But to improve the documentation, I need to know what is missing.

Hope this helps

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[alefragnani]

The extension’s idea is to give you quick access for your favorite projects. Projects are the folders, workspaces and remotes that you open in VS Code.

Whenever you open a folder/workspace that you would like to quickly access again, you just run Project Manager: Save Project and give it a custom name (it suggests the folder’s name). Then, when you are using VS Code and would like to return to that important folder, just run Project Manager: List Projects to Open and select the previously saved project.

It also support auto-detected projects. Just configure baseFolders for Git, SVN, Hg, etc, and it will discover the projects for you. These projects will also be available in the Project Manager: List Projects to Open command.

And to make user’s live easier, It has a Side Bar, which shows all your projects.

I guess this sums up the extension’s idea, and how it works 😬

Hope this helps

[alefragnani]

Reviewing this request, I understand that the Walkthrough support that was introduced in v12.8 is enough.

To access it, if it is not displayed in the Welcome Page of the VS Code, simply run Welcome: Open Walkthrough and select Get Started with Project Manager.

Hope this helps