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ligershark / side-waffle

A collection of Item- and Project Templates for Visual Studio
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Downloading of dynamic templates fails when git is blocked on corporate network #395

Open codewithtyler opened 7 years ago

codewithtyler commented 7 years ago

I wanted to load the Contoso Template Pack to see how a specific feature was implemented, so I added it's URL to SideWaffle and told it to download the pack. However, I was soon greeted by two errors:

1-contoso-web-project

2-contoso-web-project png

When I connected to the guest network and tried it again, the download was successful. It appears that our corporate network blocks the git protocol. Since our user base contains developers in both large and small companies, we should probably have a fallback to http/https for situations like this.

codewithtyler commented 7 years ago

@sayedihashimi how does the VS team handle this for cloning projects?

codewithtyler commented 7 years ago

@sayedihashimi I'd like to get your feedback on this. I'd like to have this fixed for the next version of SideWaffle.

sayedihashimi commented 7 years ago

@RandomlyKnighted do you know fix would be required to get this going? If so then we can consider it, if not then no :)

codewithtyler commented 7 years ago

What about using a standard HTTP download as our fallback method?

sayedihashimi commented 7 years ago

@RandomlyKnighted do we have support for http already? If so then users can enter the http url right? Otherwise we can consider adding it. But for a fallback I don't think it makes sense because all git repos don't have http/https support, github does but not all providers.