[MonoDevelop] add-in pre build event

Matt Ward ward.matt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 22:24:54 UTC 2015


In Xamarin Studio you could right click the solution, select Restore NuGet
Packages and then build. You would not need to re-open the solution each
time. It is not automatic though.

On 17 June 2015 at 22:31, Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Matt,
>
> That's the info that I was looking for.
>
> Regarding NuGet, Doing it on opening the solution makes a lot of sense
> as you describe for a lot of people. However at the place I work we
> use nuget to deploy fast changing internal dependencies (multiple new
> versions per day).
>
> Our build server detects the new versions and updates the
> packages.config to use the new versions, when then pull from our
> source control (with our solution still open) we then need the restore
> to run before build. In Visual Studio this happen automatically before
> build.
>
> Having to reload our solutions in order to pick up new dependency
> versions many times a day would be a pain. The solution I'm working on
> at the moment has been open for three days, meaning my packages will
> be 3 days and many, many versions out of date.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Matt Ward <ward.matt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The NuGet addin in MonoDevelop 5 restores NuGet packages when the
> solution
> > is opened. There is an option in Preferences that you can use to disable
> or
> > enable this. It was decided to do the restore on opening the solution
> > instead of pre-build since the assemblies are then made available for
> code
> > completion as soon as possible.
> >
> > The ProjectService has a BuildStarted event which you could use to
> trigger
> > some pre-build logic.
> >
> > On 17 June 2015 at 06:27, Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm trying to implement a mono develop add-in for a package manager
> >> which will restore packages on before a build.
> >>
> >> I've had a look at:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.monodevelop.com/developers/articles/extension-tree-reference/
> >>
> >> But am struggling to identify the extension point to use to get a pre
> >> build event.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know what extension point I need and also does anyone know
> >> of an add-in which hooks the pre-build to perform an action, that I
> >> can use as an example.
> >>
> >> I already looked at the nuget addin but that doesn't yet do a restore
> >> in a pre build hook. This is going to be a problem for nuget in the
> >> future because the recommended way of using nuget is to run the
> >> restore prebuild in a IDE hook, rather then the old
> >> MSBuild-Integrated package restore. People are going to start
> >> complaining that their visual studio solutions setup for automatic
> >> package restore don't work in Mono Develop. However that is an aside
> >> and is a problem for another day.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Daniel
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