When you have read my last post about Pipelines using NuGet you might have recognized that there is a drive in the direction of NuGet. There are already many tools and libraries which support NuGet for Business Central. But there was nothing directly in VS Code

Therefore I create the AL Nuget Helper Extension for VS Code

At the moment there is only one action in the extension which is called “AL Nuget Helper: restore”

It parses the app.json files in your workspace and creates a paket.dependencies file

Then the dependencies are downloaded using the paket.exe client. Because of the use of the client the generated folder structure does not look the same as you might expect. But it works nevertheless

There are a couple of settings how you can customize the extension for your needs

• Country Code: defines, which version of localized apps is used
• Custom Paket Executable Path: Override the path of paket.exe if you want to use your own or if your operating system is not supported natively
• Overwrite Paket Dependencies: If you want to customize your paket.dependencies deactivate this option

Known Issues / Missing Features

https://github.com/PatrickSchiefer/AL-Nuget-Helper/issues