Any plan on code snippets for MSBuild project file?

[doggy8088]

Hi,

Do you have any plan on code snippets for MSBuild project file? Any ideas?

[tintoy]

Hi - are there any you'd particularly like to see? I'm open to the idea :)

[doggy8088]

@tintoy Yes, I have tons of ideas for this. 😄

• For ASP.NET Core 2.0 apps, there are some common patterns that are very often to add manually.

  • Metapackage for ASP.NET Core

      <ItemGroup>
        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.All" Version="2.0.5" />
      </ItemGroup>
    

  • dotnet-watch tool

      <ItemGroup>
          <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Microsoft.DotNet.Watcher.Tools" Version="2.0.0" />
      </ItemGroup>
    

  • When deploy ASP.NET Core to IIS, you need to add this one.

    <PropertyGroup>
      <IsTransformWebConfigDisabled>true</IsTransformWebConfigDisabled>
    </PropertyGroup>
  

• For .NET Core & NuGet package

  • There are some properties need to be filled when you need to pack as a NuGet package

      <PropertyGroup>
        <Company>$CompanyName$</Company>
        <Authors>$Author$</Authors>
        <Version>$Version$</Version>
        <Description>$Description$</Description>
        <IncludeSymbols>true</IncludeSymbols>
        <IncludeSource>true</IncludeSource>
        <GeneratePackageOnBuild>false</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
      </PropertyGroup>
    

  • For the multi-targeting framework in .NET Standard project

      <ItemGroup Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == '$moniker$'">
        <Reference Include="$NuGetPackageName$" />
      </ItemGroup>
    

There are some other frameworks such as Entity Framework Core. There are some tooling support need to change *.csproj manually.

What do you think? 😃

[tintoy]

Those are great ideas!

Would you like to open a PR or would you prefer me to add them? I'm happy to do either 😀

[doggy8088]

@tintoy Can I just put my snippets into https://github.com/tintoy/msbuild-project-tools-vscode/blob/master/snippets/msbuild-project.json , then you do the following works?

[tintoy]

Sure that's fine, I can take it from there.

[doggy8088]

@tintoy PR #29 have been tested. All works. Please take a look. Thanks. 😄

[tintoy]

@doggy8088 - it's good to go:

https://github.com/tintoy/msbuild-project-tools-vscode/releases/tag/v0.2.21

Thanks again for your contribution! Feel free to add any other snippets you come up with 😉

[doggy8088]

@tintoy I installed this version. The code snippets looks not working. Do you know why?

[tintoy]

Have you changed the language to MSBuild?

[tintoy]

Here's what I see:

[doggy8088]

I opened my *.csproj file, the default language mode is "XML". After I switch language mode to MSBuild.
Everything is OK. But why my default is XML? What else I need to configure?

[doggy8088]

After I set the "files.associations" in my user settings. The default language mode has been changed to msbuild now. Problem solved. 👍

    "files.associations": {
        "*.csproj": "msbuild"
    }

[tintoy]

Yeah - the readme shows how to do that, but I was nervous about automatically taking over people's file associations :)