#How to make a visual studio extension how to
#How to make a visual studio extension install
#How to make a visual studio extension update

For example: [ДЄll input files will be watched for changes, and the corrisponding output files will be updated when you make a change to the Scss, providing you have the extension installed. If you want to add an additional Scss and CSS file, either right click the CSS file in the GUIВ like we just done, or alternatively you can edit the nfig file directly. This JSON formatted file containts the input and output file paths. The very first time you use the Web Compiler extension, a file named nfigВ will be created in the root of the project. Contratulations, you've now compiled a Scss file intoВ standard browser compatibleВ css. If everything worked as expected, you should now have a file and a style.css file underneith the style.scss file. Start by creating a file named style.scssВ in the wwwroot > css folder We now need to create a SASS (scss) file. Wait for the installer to finish before re-opening Visual Studio. NOTE that it can take a few seconds for the installer to appear.

#How to make a visual studio extension install

Follow the steps to install the extension. Close Visual Studio and wait for the installer to appear.Click on Extensions > Manage Extensions > Online.We start by installing the Web Compiler extension to Visual Studio. This tutorial assumes that you already have an ASP.NET Web Application open in Visual Studio. Once you have followed the steps in this guide, your SCSS files will automatically be compiled to browser readableВ .css and minified min.cssВ files every time you save the SCSS files. What you can do after following this guide SCSS (Sassy CSS) is a newer standard, built as an enhancement to the older Sass standard. It's generally favoured over standard CSS for several reasons, I've found that being able to use imports and mixings' allows me to re-use code and maintain a larger codebase with more ease. Sass is a CSS preprocessor with enhancements to the CSS syntax.

#How to make a visual studio extension how to

I'll show you how to use the Web Compiler extension toВ generate standard CSS files from multiple SCSS files on the fly. vdproj file - which lets the installer run, but it won't install because it says a newer version is installed: I've tried generating new GUIDs and manually updating the existing ones, but without success.Compiling Sass & LESS files in Visual Studio has never been easier. I've tried manually changing the product code and package code in the.

#How to make a visual studio extension update

The old way would have been to update the product code, but I cannot find a way to do that now in the interface. So how do I create an update installer? There is no 'Publish' menu option on the deployment project, and 'Publish' is unavailable on the main menu for the project. I've updated the AssemblyFileVersion and AssemblyVersion properties in the output assembly, but this doesn't help. I'm using VS 2019: if I choose 'Install' from the project deployment menu then the new version is installed locally, but if I build it and run the MSI then I get 'Another version of this program is already installedвЂ¦' and will I have to ask my customer to uninstall and reinstall the app. I'm using the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects extension to build a new installer for an update to a 10 year old project, but I cannot seem to create an installer that doesn't require the old version to be removed first. I asked this on the deployment projects QNA