Selectively retrieve or deploy members listed in Salesforce package.xml files.
Why this extension
When working with Salesforce manifests it's common to retrieve or deploy the entire package.xml. This extension adds the ability to act on only the selected lines or XML fragments in the editor so you can retrieve or deploy a handful of members without touching the rest of the manifest.
Core features
Retrieve or deploy only the selected member(s) from a manifest (supports multiple selections).
Attempts to infer metadata types from the workspace package.xml; prompts when ambiguous.
Uses the Salesforce CLI (sf) with the user's default org (no alias required).
Small, focused UI: context-menu commands in the XML editor.
Commands
sfdxManifest.retrieve — "Retrieve selected member(s) from Org"
Use: open a package.xml (or any XML), select one or more member lines, right-click -> Retrieve selected member(s) from Org.
Behavior: writes a temporary manifest containing the selected members and runs sf project retrieve --manifest <temp> (shows CLI output).
sfdxManifest.deploy — "Deploy selected member(s) to Org"
Use: select member lines in an XML manifest, right-click -> Deploy selected member(s) to Org.
Behavior: writes a temporary manifest and runs sf project deploy start --manifest <temp> (shows CLI output).
sfdxManifest.generateTypes — "Generate package.xml from selection"
Use: select any XML fragment or lines and run the command (context menu or Command Palette).
Behavior: builds a package.xml containing detected metadata types and member names for inspection or copy/paste.
Ensure the sf CLI is installed and available on your PATH (or configure your environment so VS Code can see it). If spawn sf ENOENT appears, sf is not found by the editor process.
Temporary manifests are written to the workspace by default; check the extension configuration manifestExtension.tempLocation to change that behavior.
