[MonoDevelop] add-in pre build event

[Daniel Hughes]

I cannot find the BuildStarted extension point in:

http://www.monodevelop.com/developers/articles/extension-tree-reference/#monodevelop-project-services

Is it out of date/not complete. And if so how does one go about
discovering these extension points?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Matt Ward <ward.matt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 be 3 days and many, many versions out of date.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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