Project-system: Publish nuget packages for the project system

[MBulli]

I'm the author of a visual studio extension which provides a better UI for command line editing.
While implementing support for .Net Core projects I noticed that Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.ILaunchSettingsProvider seems like the right place to start.

I couldn't find a reliable source for Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProjectSystem.Managed.dll to reference. On my local disk I found the dll inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\Extensions\ujthnp1g.mnl but the last path component is different on every computer.

What is the recommended way to reference that assembly? Or should I generally avoid referring to that assembly?

[srivatsn]

We are about to publish a NuGet package for this dll which you can use. @basoundr please update this thread once you have the package.

@MBulli - curious - what is your scenario? Is your extension providing some support for editing the launchsettings.json file?

[MBulli]

Thank you for the quick response!

Yes it does. We started our project because we disliked the tiny edit field in C++ projects which gets annoying very quick when writing a lot of command line utilities. We then extended our extension to support multiple project types and released it. Right now we have a working implementation for .Net Core projects based on ILaunchSettingsProvider.

You can check out the .Net Core implementation and the extension on our GitHub repo https://github.com/MBulli/SmartCommandlineArgs/commit/e67d8532e9abb6b13eec08a9b211311bde0b144a

[basoundr]