VS WebLinks

An extension for Visual Studio that enables you to quickly copy a link to a selection in a file hosted in a remote Git repository.

Build status

Features

• Open or copy a link to a file from the Solution Explorer context menu.. ..or from a selected region of text in the editor

  

Supported Git Hosting Providers

• GitHub
• Azure DevOps (formerly Visual Studio Team Services)
• ..more to follow...

Building

Prerequisites

Note: Windows only (sorry! it requires the Visual Studio SDK to build)

• Visual Studio Community 2017
  • Workloads:
    • .NET Desktop Development
    • Visual Studio Extensibility

Compile and debug

To build from the command line just run the following from the root of the repository:

$ nuget restore
$ msbuild

To install and debug the VSIX from within Visual Studio, open the solution file and hit F5. That's it!