Doesn't generate a CDK project?

[douglasg14b]

I just deployed via the VS2022 extension ( AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio), and no CDK project or files where generated. The projects folder under .aws-dotnet-deploy is also empty.

The FAQ says a .Net CDK project is generated and can be extended, but where is it?

During the process it shows:

But no project or files have been created in the project folder.

[ashovlin]

The tool does generate a CDK project for most of the deployment recipes, but deletes it once the deployment succeeds.

To persist it using the CLI, you can use dotnet aws deployment-project generate to generate the CDK project from one of the built-in recipes:

dotnet aws deployment-project generate --output ../CustomDeploymentProject --project-display-name "Custom deployment project"

You can then modify the persisted CDK project, perhaps to add new resources and options, or to streamline the built-in recipe. You may want to check it into source control alongside your application code.

Then to deploy an application using the persisted CDK project, you can use the --deployment-project switch on dotnet aws deploy:

dotnet aws deploy --deploy-project ../CustomDeploymentProject

Or if the custom deployment project is located anywhere beneath the solution (.sln) of the project you are deploying, the deployment tool will detect it automatically. This applies to Visual Studio too.

Some more resources:

• https://aws.github.io/aws-dotnet-deploy/docs/commands/project/
• https://aws.github.io/aws-dotnet-deploy/docs/commands/deploy/
• Full tutorial: https://aws.github.io/aws-dotnet-deploy/docs/deployment-projects/

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We don't support the persistence flag via the Visual Studio, but if you're interested you can open a feature request on https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-visual-studio.

[douglasg14b]

Gotcha, thanks!

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