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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. 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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