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Using LibMan in Visual Studio

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Justin Clareburt edited this page Jun 20, 2018 · 26 revisions

This topic discusses how to use LibMan from inside Visual Studio.

Overview of LibMan in Visual Studio

Visual Studio has built-in support for using LibMan in Web Projects, with UI tooling - including a window that helps you add files to your project, as well as rich editing support for the LibMan manifest file (libman.json).

Though LibMan can work from any folder or any project type (via CLI or a CI build script), within Visual Studio, LibMan features are only available Web Projects.

Getting started with LibMan

Open a Web Project in Visual Studio 2017 (v15.8 Preview 3 and above).

! If you're looking to get started with a new Web Project, see the Getting Started - Razor MVC guide.

Various elements include:

  • UI components
    • Add New Library
    • Manage Client-side Libraries
    • Enable Restore on Build
    • Clean
  • Editing the manifest (libman.json)
    • IntelliSense is available
  • Actions
    • Install/Uninstall, Restore, Clean
    • Status shown in Background Task Center
    • Output shown in Output window
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