Uno Extensions menu often missing from VS2022

[HakanL]

Often it seems that the Uno Extension menu is missing from Visual Studio 2022, is there something I'm missing? I have the toolbar in my app, but if I select Settings then nothing happens.

I enabled the MSBuild Diagnostics log, it turned out to be 32 MB 😨 but attached here.
MsBuild Uno Extension logs.zip

The extension menu is there when I create a new simple Uno project from the templates, so it's definitely something in my more complex solution that is causing it, but I figured it would be good for you to figure it out if it affects other users as well.

[jeromelaban]

Thanks for the report.

It seems that some of the projects in the solution are not building properly:

D:\Projects\OpenSource\Haukcode-sACN\src\Haukcode.sACN\Haukcode.sACN.csproj : error MSB4057: The target "UnoDumpTargetFrameworks" does not exist in the project.
D:\Projects\OpenSource\Haukcode-KiNet\src\Haukcode.KiNet\Haukcode.KiNet.csproj : error MSB4057: The target "UnoDumpTargetFrameworks" does not exist in the project.
D:\Projects\OpenSource\Haukcode-ArtNet\src\ArtNet\Haukcode.ArtNet.csproj : error MSB4057: The target "UnoDumpTargetFrameworks" does not exist in the project.

Are those projects parts not part of a solution filter, or something similar?

[dr1rrb]

Oh ... one is WinUI package while the other one SDK, so it makes sense to have different version. Need to investigate more ...

[HakanL]

I searched for either of those strings, not in my solutions, so not sure where they were coming from.
The solution is a combination of open source projects hosted on Github and two private repos in Bitbucket. I'm happy to give you access to those on Bitbucket. Then to actually build you need to have them in specific folders (just because of how this project came about, haven't consolidated). This is part of the build script, hopefully that will give you enough details of what to check out to get it to build.

resources:
  repositories:
    - repository: MagnusEngine
      type: bitbucket
      endpoint: Bitbucket - hakanl
      name: DMXCore/MagnusEngine
      ref: main
    - repository: HaukcodeSACN
      type: github
      endpoint: github.com_HakanL
      name: hakanl/Haukcode.sACN
      ref: main
    - repository: HaukcodeArtNet
      type: github
      endpoint: github.com_HakanL
      name: hakanl/Haukcode.ArtNet
      ref: main
    - repository: HaukcodeKiNet
      type: github
      endpoint: github.com_HakanL
      name: hakanl/Haukcode.KiNet
      ref: main
    - repository: HaukcodeMeadow
      type: github
      endpoint: github.com_HakanL
      name: hakanl/Meadow.DotNetIoT
      ref: main

steps:
- checkout: self
  path: s/DMXCore/100/Software
- checkout: MagnusEngine
  path: s/DMXCore/MagnusEngine
- checkout: HaukcodeSACN
  path: s/OpenSource/Haukcode-sACN
- checkout: HaukcodeArtNet
  path: s/OpenSource/Haukcode-ArtNet
- checkout: HaukcodeKiNet
  path: s/OpenSource/Haukcode-KiNet
- checkout: HaukcodeMeadow
  path: s/OpenSource/Haukcode-Meadow.DotNetIoT

[HakanL]

@dr1rrb I sent you a message on Discord, it may be quicker to just take the discussion about access to repos outside Github.

[dr1rrb]

Hey, so I think that we have found the issue. Working to provide a more robust fix, but also looking for something short term, is it possible that you do:

1. Go to D:\_Cache\NuGet\uno.winui.devserver\6.1.0-dev.445\tools\rc\host\net9.0\
2. Rename the file DevServer.Custom.Targets to DevServer.Custom.Impl.Targets
3. Create a new file named DevServer.Custom.Targets with content:

   <Project>
       <Import Condition="'$(UsingUnoSdk)'!='true'" Project="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)/DevServer.Custom.Impl.Targets" />
   </Project>

Or run the script in a cmd:

cd D:\_Cache\NuGet\uno.winui.devserver\6.1.0-dev.445\tools\rc\host\net9.0\
move DevServer.Custom.Targets DevServer.Custom.Impl.Targets
echo ^<Project^>^<Import Condition="'$(UsingUnoSdk)'!='true'" Project="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)/DevServer.Custom.Impl.Targets" /^>^</Project^> > DevServer.Custom.Targets

[HakanL]

Yup, that worked, now I can see the menu (and use Hot Design)!

[dr1rrb]

Ok cool 👍So at least we have a fix to push right now while we continue to work a more robust solution.

Thanks for your time and your help, it's really helpful to improve the stability of the platform 👍👍👍

[SongOfYouth]

You have changed the default path of nuget package cache?

[HakanL]

Yes, that is correct, I have it redirected to a folder on my Dev Drive:

    <add key="Local" value="D:\Projects\_NuGetRepo" />