vscode-solution-explorer

This extension adds a Visual Studio Solution File explorer panel in Visual Studio Code. Now you can navigate into your solution following the original Visual Studio structure.

Features

Adds a Solution Explorer panel where you can find a Visual Studio Solution File Explorer.

• Can load any .sln version

• Supports csproj, vcxproj, fsproj and vbproj (from vs2017 and before)

• Supports dotnet core projects

• You can create, delete, rename or move project folders and files.

• You can create, delete, rename or move solution, solution folders and projects.

• You can add or remove packages and references when the project is of kind CPS (dotnet core).

Requirements

You have to open a folder with at least one solution file (".sln") in the root path.

Or you can create a new one by clicking with the right mouse button.

License

The source code is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license.

The icons from (vscode-icons extension) are licensed under the Creative Commons - ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.

Branded icons are licensed under their copyright license.

Extension Settings

• vssolution.showMode Show the solution explorer in the "activityBar", in the "explorer" pane or "none" to hide it. This feature is only for testing pourposes.

• vssolution.solutionExplorerIcons "solution-explorer": custom items from vscode-solution-explorer extension. "mix": file and folder icons from the installed icons theme. "current-theme": all the icons are from the installed icons theme.

• vssolution.showOutputChannel Show the solution explorer output channel.

• vssolution.trackActiveItem Select the active editor file in the solution explorer (not recomended).

• vssolution.netcoreIgnore Folder and file names to ignore when get a dotnet core project content.

• vssolution.xxprojItemTypes Type of XML element to put in the xxproj files.

• vssolution.xmlspaces Spaces to be used for indenting XML output. It could be a number or an string. ex. "2", " " or "t".

• vssolution.altSolutionFolders If there is no solution in the workplace root folder, it will search for solutions in any of these folders.

• vssolution.win32Encoding Win32 "codepage" to "iconv.js" encoding equivalences.

Example

{
    "vssolution.showMode": "activityBar",

    "vssolution.solutionExplorerIcons": "current-theme",

    "vssolution.showOutputChannel": true,

    "vssolution.trackActiveItem": false,

    "vssolution.netcoreIgnore": [
        "bin",
        "node_modules",
        "obj",
        ".ds_store"
    ],

    "vssolution.xxprojItemTypes": {
        "*": "Content",
        "cs": "Compile",
        "cpp": "ClCompile",
        "cc": "ClCompile",
        "c": "ClCompile",
        "h": "ClInclude",
        "hpp": "ClInclude",
        "vb": "Compile",
        "fs": "Compile",
        "ts": "TypeScriptCompile"
    },

    "vssolution.xmlspaces": "2",

    "vssolution.altSolutionFolders": [
        "src"
    ],

    "vssolution.win32Encoding": {
        "932": "Shift_JIS",
        "936": "GBK",
        "950": "BIG5"
    }
}

Known Issues

Please report your issues: vscode-solution-explorer GitHub page

Release Notes

There is a lot of work to do.

0.3.7

Trying to cleanup extension .vsix

0.3.6

PR #100 Configurable Line Endings. Thanks to jesperbjensen

PR #105 Fixed empty projects and directories on fs.lstat error. Thanks to Dvvarf

PR #106 Added ProjectReference and CustomBuild item support to StandardProject. Thanks to Dvvarf

PR #110 Minor spelling fix in README. Thanks to vthg2themax

Added automated build and publish from Github

0.3.5

Bugfix #80: thanks to martinothamar for his PR

PR #88: thanks to jesperbjensen

0.3.4

Bugfix #83: fixed dynamic scripts loading due to webpack use.

PR #75: fix: convert dash to underscore in namespace - by emrahcetiner

Thanks to contributors

dfrencham darkmfj mwpenny remcoros marawan31 emrahcetiner martinothamar jesperbjensen Dvvarf vthg2themax

Enjoy!