ReadMe.md

wormie-visualstudio.extension

This package contains modules that extends Chocolatey with the ability to manage Visual Studio Extensions for Visual Studio 2017 and above. These functions may be used in Chocolatey install/uninstall scripts by declaring this package as a dependency in your package's nuspec file.

Installation

Install via chocolatey: choco install wormie-visualstudio.extension

The module is usually automatically installed as a dependency.

Usage

To create a package that uses an extension function, add the following to the nuspec specification:

<dependencies>
    <dependency id="wormie-visualstudio.extension" version="SPECIFY_LATEST_VERSION" />
</dependencies>

NOTE: Make sure you use adequate minimum version.

To test the functions you can import the module directory, or via the chocolateyInstaller.psm1 module:

PS> import-module $env:ChocolateyInstall\helpers\chocolateyInstaller.psm1
PS> import-module $env:ChocolateyInstall\extensions\wormie-visualstudio\*.psm1

You can now test any of the functions:

PS> Install-VisualStudioExtension "packageName" "https://download.loc"

Keep in mind that function may work only in the context of the chocolateyInstaller.ps1.

To get the list of fucntions, load the module directory and invoke the following command:

PS> Get-Command -Module wormie-visualstudio

To get the help for the specific function, use man:

PS> man Install-VisualStudioExtension