Support for referencing GitHub projects

[radu-matei]

I would like to have a feature where I just reference a .NET Core project from a public source directly in my .csproj (project.json) file.

Verify that the referenced project is actually a .NET Core project, check the versions for .NET Standard compatibility, then clone the repo (or create git submodules - what would be the better approach?) and reference the project.

Is this something that might find its way into the tooling, or I can start building an extension for VS Code (or VS17)?

If we believe this sounds good, when I get some spare time I would like to investigate the creation of a VS Code extension.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Radu M

[peterblazejewicz]

Radu, Unless I'm wrong NuGet lacks the proper support for this (package resolution). I'm accustomed to use such feature in NPM or Bower, but just not in .NET. The closest thing I ever used in NuGet was locally referenced project

[radu-matei]

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying. The thing I would love to have in VS (Code) is to just reference a GitHub repository in the .csproj file, check the .NET Standard version of that project then clone or make a submodule out of that project, then reference it like any other local project (and maybe keep support to update from a specific branch).

I don't directly see where the NuGet pakage resolution comes in discussion since in the end it would simply be like a local referenced project.

Could you please expand on that?

Thanks!

[peterblazejewicz]

I should be more specific (sorry, quite new to .NET tools). With Node/JavaScript that's built into package managers itself (NPM, Bower, Yarn NPM client). I just said I think NuGet has no such support at all. If you mean IDEs or editors like VSCode, then sorry for added noise. VSCode is more x-plat IMO