Showcase com.unity.ide.visualstudio: Advanced filters

Hi,

I've created an extension to the visual studio integration package to have finer-grained control over what .asmdefs travel over to the created visual studio solution in form of projects.

The reasoning behind it is simple: The more packages or assembly definitions you have in your project the more sluggish your visual studio experience becomes.
This is most notably on startup but also when attaching visual studio to e.g. trigger break points.

With this fork you can select exactly what source code you want to be able to see (and step through and debug) in visual studio and reduce the generated vs projects to just the few you actually need. Hooray for lowering mental load

Here's a simplified example with just a few packages and .asmdefs:





I would've gladly issued this as a pull request but as the sourcecode for com.unity.ide.visualstudio is not openly hosted, I created a fork of the auto-generated needle-mirror of the package:
https://github.com/krisrok/com.unity.ide.visualstudio/tree/feature/advanced_package_filter

 

@John_MSFT Hi, I just thought I'd tag you here because you seem to be the right guy for this.

The

CONTRIBUTING.md

reads

## Once you have a change ready following these ground rules. Simply make a pull request

, after all

 

Added a readme:
https://github.com/krisrok/com.unity.ide.visualstudio/tree/feature/advanced_package_filter

Installation
You just replace the original package with this fork inside the manifest.json:

In the dependencies find the line

"com.unity.ide.visualstudio": "2.0.16",

and replace it with

"com.unity.ide.visualstudio": "https://github.com/krisrok/com.unity.ide.visualstudio.git#2.0.16-advanced_package_filter",

 

Updated to 2.0.17

 

That’s some nice stuff! Would love to see that integrated into the official package.