Visual Studio 2019 supprt

[elangelo]

Any chance we might get this?

[3F]

Sure. This is still my active project (today, this is still actively integrated with our other projects).
Therefore, I have plans for VS2019 too.

Just no time for fast support.
Anybody can also help to add some (#39) support. I'll definitely review any PR.

Thanks for using and follow the news.

[elangelo]

I've been trying to get this to work on 2019 but i keep getting:

If i remember correctly on 2017 you got a yes/no button to still install it. Somehow that no longer works on 2019. I'll keep trying...
If you have any hints in what directions i should be looking that would be greatly appreciated.

[elangelo]

after closing and reopening visual studio my branch actually builds something that works for me. I don't want to create a PR for this because it's clearly not sufficient but maybe you could already have a look?

elangelo@2c04d3f

[3F]

@elangelo we're using VSIX manifest v1 with the following list of SupportedProducts Elements (VSX Schema) for support all products starting from VS2010+. But this is obsolete way after VS 15.0 (read #36)

As for temp VS2010+solution, you can try to add partial support for 16.0 via the same <VisualStudio Version="16.0"> record:

vsSolutionBuildEvent/vsSolutionBuildEvent/source.extension.vsixmanifest

Lines 44 to 51 in e6f5f68

	<VisualStudio Version="15.0">
	<Edition>Community</Edition>
	<Edition>Enterprise</Edition>
	<Edition>Ultimate</Edition>
	<Edition>Premium</Edition>
	<Edition>Pro</Edition>
	<Edition>IntegratedShell</Edition>
	</VisualStudio>

Moreover, I can accept PR if it will work in real use with latest RC VS2019. However, full support means usage VSIX v3 :( that of course requires separate distribution for:

VS2010, - v1
VS2012, - v1, (v2 - optional)
VS2013, - v1, (v2 - optional)
VS2015, - v1, (v2 - optional)
VS2017, - v3
VS2019. - v3

I have no priority to this for the coming months, but you also can try to add configuration for build both packages (v1 & v3 manifest)

Anyway, most of changes for this product has been planned for this year, ie. some parts should be extracted into the new projects at all and some parts should be replaced by already existing:

• tools/msbuild replaced by https://github.com/3F/hMSBuild/
  from your changes, (15.0, 16.0) will not work with modern versions after major changes from MS
• sln/ isolated projects-engine replaced by https://github.com/3F/MvsSln
  it can fix some bugs like this: Pre-Build error: An equivalent project (a project with the same global properties and tools version) is already present in the project collection #42 (comment)
• ...

[3F]

Today, #45 finally initiates support of the modern 15+ products (n. VS2017 is 15, VS2019 is 16).

Modern platform requires more than just update manifest file. I already added AsyncPackages implementation. So, basically we need to resolve some problems and add separate build of the both vsix packages. See the remaining subtasks there.

Welcome everyone to speed up the process, or please wait for my time.

[3F]

We're fully ready for VS2019 and now completely integrated with *VS2017.

• For VS2017 will be also available old SDK10 package implementation like today's 0.12.10.10901. But SDK15 is recommended.

Other:

• Starting from VS2019 you need use only SDK15 packages.
• VS2010, VS2012, VS2013, VS2015: SDK10
• CI /Build Servers, msbuild tools: SDK10 or SDK15
• Devenv Command Line version: SDK10
• API: SDK10 or SDK15

All binaries will be available from our GitHub Releases Page. (I've plan to migrate from sf for new publishing)

Everyone, please also test the last CI build before public release!

Known problems here: #45