Support formatting ASP.NET vNext projects

[conniey]

I have an library that is written in C#, but I converted it to a .kproj (ASP.NET vNext library) so that my ASP.NET vNext website could also use its logic.

CodeFormatter skips over this project and doesn't format it. so I have to manually create a .csproj, add the .cs files, and run the formatter tool again.

.kproj Samples

[jaredpar]

@jasonmalinowski is there any way to load up ASP.Net vNext projects in Roslyn today? Right now the CodeFormatter just uses a MSBuildWorkspace. If there is an easy way to load this project type I'm sure it wouldn't take much work to get the code formatter to support it.

[davidfowl]

It's possible but not very nice right now. We're working on an API that will make this less sucky.

[jaredpar]

@davidfowl is there a GitHub issue I can track for this API? Once it's available I'd like to try it out here.

[davidfowl]

Not really, we're mostly layering things differently (some in NuGet, some in XRE) to make this possible. I'll update this thread when we get closer to having something useful.

[danroth27]

@conniey Please also note that you don't have to convert your existing library project to a kproj to be able to reference it from your ASP.NET 5 app as long as you are ok with the app running on the full .NET Framework. You can reference csproj based projects from an ASP.NET 5 app. You would need to port your existing project only if you wanted to be able to run on .NET Core.

[Petermarcu]

@conniey @danroth27 We also plan on adding ASP.NET 5 as a target from a Portable Library so you wont need to have a seperate project file and multiple builds if you want to have you're shared logic applicable to multiple places.

[conniey]

@danroth27 The application that uses the library, I want to run on .NET Core. :) Thanks for the tip though.

[shaunluttin]

This issue also occurs with .xproj files. Here is my workaround:

1. Add CodeFormatterWorkaround.csproj in your the directory.
2. Then run codeformatter .\CodeFormatterWorkaround.csproj

This recursively formats all *.cs files without needing to specify them individually. Hooray!

CodeFormatterWorkaround.csproj contains only the following:

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="*.cs" />
    <Compile Include=".\**\*.cs" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <Target Name="Compile">
    <Csc Sources="@(Compile)"/>  
  </Target>
</Project>

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6914046/can-ms-build-include-all-library-project-code-files-without-specifying-them-indi