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LibMan can't be found in the VS Gallery

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp

Research direction

Start with the README's Installation section and compare its instructions with the linked Visual Studio Gallery search results. Done means the README includes a direct marketplace.visualstudio.com link for LibMan; improving the gallery ranking may depend on the external gallery.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Describe the bug

LibMan seems to be missing from the VS Gallery, or is at least very hard to find.

To Reproduce
  1. Follow https://github.com/aspnet/LibraryManager?tab=readme-ov-file#installation and search for "Library Manager" in the VS.
  2. Observe that LibMan is not listed, at least not among the first few dozen extensions.

Since there's no marketplace.visualstudio.com link here to LibMan, nor does Google help, I couldn't actually install the extension.

Expected behavior

LibMan is the first search hit. I'd also suggest a marketplace.visualstudio.com link in the Readme.

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Additional context

Using VS 17.14.18, but this can be observed in the online VS Gallery as well: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=Library%20Manager&target=VS&category=All%20categories&vsVersion=&sortBy=Relevance. This might be a VS Gallery bug.

Dominant language
C#
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Forks
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