MSBuild targets for publishing extensions

[reduckted]

For one of my extensions I created an MSBuild target to publish the extension to the Visual Studio Marketplace. You can see it here:

https://github.com/reduckted/GitWebLinks/blob/3cb46cb99f2657d1e8e70c32de571df7a29e656b/visual-studio/build/PublishToMarketplace.targets

You can publish by running:

msbuild /t:PublishToMarketplace /p:Configuration=Release

I was planning on making this into a NuGet package so that I don't have to write it for every one of my extensions, but I think it would be cool if the toolkit provided a build target like this.

Perhaps a build target to publish to the VSIX Gallery would be useful as well? Are there any other common tasks that we could write build targets for?

[ErikEJ]

Maybe burning the version number?

[reduckted]

That's a great idea!

I forgot that I actually wrote a target to do that for one of my extensions (here). I do remember running into a bit of trouble with it though, because the code-behind that's generated from the VSIX Synchronizer extension isn't updated! Thankfully that extension didn't use the Vsix.Version property, but we'd definitely need to do make sure it's updated as well.

[madskristensen]

I'm using a GitHub Action to perform all those things now. I just finished it over the holidays. See it here: https://github.com/madskristensen/PkgdefLanguage/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yaml

[ErikEJ]

Nice - But we dont all use Github actions

[madskristensen]

I know, it was more for inspiration, I guess

[ErikEJ]

Appreciated!

[reduckted]

I used to use cezarypiatek/VsixPublisherAction, but ran into microsoft/VSExtensibility#70 recently, which is why I ended up writing an MSBuild target.