Overview

JFrog Visual studio extension adds JFrog Xray scanning of NuGet project dependencies to your Visual Studio.

Installing the Extension

1. Open Visual Studio
2. Open Tools --> Extensions and Updates

3. Search for JFrog Visual Studio Extension
4. Click on Download
5. Once the installation is completed, re-open Visual Studio.

Building the Sources

To build the plugin sources, please follow these steps:

1. Clone the code from git.
2. Open Visual Studio.
3. Open Tools --> Get Tools and Features

4. Select the workloads tab and scroll to the bottem for the Other Toolsets section. Install Visual Studio extension development. Read more about Visual Studio SDK here.

5. Once the installation is completed, re-open Visual Studio.
6. Click on File --> Open --> Project/Solution and navigate to the project root dir and select the sln file.
7. To build the project, click on Build tab --> Build Solution. The VSIX file will be created in the following location: $PROJECT_LOCATION\bin\Release\JFrog.VSExtension.vsix

8. If you'd like to help us develop and enhance the extension, this step is for you. To build and run the plugin following your code changes, click on Debug --> Start Debugging.

Troublshooting Issues

When openning the project in Visual Studio for the first time, the following error may appear : "Fody.WeavingTask" task was not given a value for the required parameter "SolutionDir".

To fix this,close the solution and open it again. More information can be found here

Code Contributions

We welcome community contribution through pull requests.