FEATURES.md

Features

Table of Contents

• Features
  • Table of Contents
  • Explorer
  • Workspace
  • General

Explorer

Conan - Recipe

• Show list of conan recipe in local cache
• Show list of editable package recipes
• Show information about the recipe (also available for editable mode)
• Open recipe in explorer (also available for editable mode)
• Open recipe in VS Code (also available for editable mode)
• Remove
  • Remove recipe from local cache
  • Remove editable package recipe from editable mode
• Filter list of recipe based on a remote

Conan - Package

• Show list of binary packages from a recipe
• Open in Explorer
• Open in VS Code
• Remove package
• Dirty package
  • Show list of dirty packages
  • Open in Explorer
• Filter list of binary packages that belong to a recipe based on a remote

Conan - Package Revision

• Show list of binary packages revision from a package
• Open in Explorer
• Open in VS Code
• Remove package
• Filter list of binary packages that belong to a recipe based on a remote

Conan - Profile

• Add new profile
• Edit profile in VS Code editor
• Open in Explorer
• Rename profile
• Duplicate profile
• Remove profile

Conan - Remote

• Edit remote fils in VS Code editor
• Add new remote
• Rename remote
• Update URL of remote
• Enable / Disable remote
• Remove remote

Workspace

• Execution of conan comand from workspace configuration:
  • create
  • install
  • build
  • source
  • package
  • export-pkg
• Add editable package
• Remove editable package
• Automatic selection of Python interpreter using the ms-python.python extension
• Application of Conan's buildEnv/runEnv

General

• Define multiple conan profiles inside settings.json that you can use for the extension.

  {
    "vsconan.conan.profile.configurations": {
        "my_conan1": {
            "conanVersion": "1",
            "conanExecutable": ".venv1/Scripts/conan.exe",
            "conanPythonInterpreter": ".venv1/Scripts/python.exe",
            "conanExecutionMode": "pythonInterpreter"
        },
        "my_conan2": {
            "conanVersion": "2",
            "conanExecutable": ".venv2/Scripts/conan.exe",
            "conanPythonInterpreter": ".venv2/Scripts/python.exe",
            "conanExecutionMode": "pythonInterpreter",
            "conanUserHome": "/path/to/conan/home
        },
    },
    "vsconan.conan.profile.default": "my_conan1"
  }

• Overwrite conan home folder inside the profile with conanUserHome
• Status bar to ease the switching between your predefined profiles
• Status bar buttons for the following commands:
  • vsconan.conan.install
  • vsconan.conan.build
  • vsconan.conan.create
  • vsconan.conan.buildenv
  • vsconan.conan.runenv
  • vsconan.conan.deactivateenv