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fernandoescolar / vscode-solution-explorer

This is a Visual Studio Code extension that provides a (.sln) Visual Studio Solution explorer panel..

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Add local dotnet tools management #249

Closed badsyntax closed 1 year ago

badsyntax commented 1 year ago

Fixes #248

Overview

Introduce new top level item for displaying the dotnet Local Tools
Use dotnet tool list --local to discover locally installed tools (this operation is actually very fast, i think it just reads the manifest file)
New comands: "Add local tool", "Remove local tool". "Update local tools version"
The UX for adding/updating/removing is very similar to how packages are managed

Installation of local tools requires a local manifest file to exist, else you'll get the following error:

❯ dotnet tool install --local "Cake.Tool" --version "3.0.0"
Cannot find a manifest file.
For a list of locations searched, specify the "-d" option before the tool name.
If you intended to install a global tool, add `--global` to the command.
If you would like to create a manifest, use `dotnet new tool-manifest`, usually in the repo root directory.

I decided to not manage this in the extension as it's obvious to the user what needs to be done to resolve the error.

Screencast

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/102141/208436622-99f869e2-7fd5-435e-bffc-cb36eb9e1721.mov

badsyntax commented 1 year ago

In hindsight, i don't think it's appropriate for this feature to land in this extension, and local tools are not really related to the solution. I will instead create a new extension for this feature.