Add visual studio support

What should we add or change to make your life better?

It would be great to have a Tye extension available in visual studio. (All i need is a tye run button)

Why is this important to you?

Right now i can’t easily transistion to tye because part of my team wants to stay with visual studio and they don’t want to run their project from the commandline. It would be nice to have a replacement for the run multiple projects button in VS. Right now if i still want to use Tye i have to manually setup Tye’s env variable structure in the launchsettings.json to make sure it will work for them when using the traditional method. If tye could generate this for me then that would be a great help too.

[tebeco]

yeah i would love a to see if “just press F5” is possible to use either the tye.yaml by default but also the possibility to select one (mono repo) and that would attach debugger properly to all the given project list in thé services 😉

It could also use the launchProfile for specifying specific tags for filtering (is there an env var mapping to tag filter ?)

[glennfordd]

I managed to create a workaround for the meantime to have our team a "F5"experience

1. Install Microsoft Child Process Debugging Power Tool
2. Restart VS. Go to Debug > Other Debug Targets > Child Process Debugging Settings > Tick Enable child process debugging
3. Create a project that serves as your Runner or Startup project
4. Create/Edit a debug profile and change it to Executable
5. On the Executable field, enter “tye”(without double quotes) and on the arguments field enter “run” (without double quotes)
6. On the Working Directory enter $(SolutionDir) or wherever your tye.yaml will be
7. Tick Enable native code debugging

Set that as your startup project hit F5 and debug. I know it’s a hack but for my setup it’s working perfectly.

Note that I only tested this using the Basic Example that was provided as I’m not going to use other stuff (e.g. K8s, ingress, replicas, etc.)

I also feel like it made Tye working slower than just doing it via Terminal