Suggestion: Allow LibMan support in Visual Studio to be activated by a project capability

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#605 opened on Sep 16, 2020 2 comments 4 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: csharp
Domain: tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing how LibMan detects project support and how the LibMan wizard is exposed for projects containing libman.json. Then inspect the project file and project-capability integration points in the Visual Studio extension. Done means a project can opt in through a capability and use the wizard and context-menu actions outside the currently supported project types.

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Description

Functional impact

This would allow any project to opt-in to libman support (context menu items, add library wizard).

Minimal repro steps

Create a Razor Class Library project
Try to add a library via LibMan wizard (e.g. for image assets)

Expected result

Some way to allow enabling the LibMan wizard.

Actual result

Editing libman.json works, but there's no way to get the wizard to work.

Further technical details

Enabling LibMan via a project capability means that anyone could edit their project file, even if not a web project, to opt-in to LibMan support.

Since the editor support works as long as there's a libman.json file, this issue is mostly to see if there's interest in enabling wizard support in other project types.

Dominant language: C#
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