Visual Studio Marketplace Publisher

📦 Publish your Visual Studio extensions to the marketplace with ease!

This GitHub Action publishes your Visual Studio extension (.vsix) to the Visual Studio Marketplace.

🚀 Usage

You can use the Visual Studio Marketplace Publisher GitHub Action by configuring a YAML-based workflow file, e.g. .github/workflows/deploy.yml.

⚠️ Note: This action only works on a Windows-based runner.

📥 Inputs

Input	Required	Description
marketplace-pat	Yes	Your Personal Access Token for the Visual Studio Marketplace
publish-manifest-path	Yes	Path to your publish manifest (JSON file)
vsix-path	Yes	Path to the local VSIX package to publish
vs-version	No	Version of Visual Studio tooling to use (default: latest)
vs-prerelease	No	Allow pre-release Visual Studio tooling (default: false)

📋 Example

Publish a local VSIX file:

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v4

  - name: Visual Studio Marketplace Publisher
    uses: CodingWithCalvin/GHA-VSMarketplacePublisher@v2
    with:
      # REQUIRED
      marketplace-pat: ${{ secrets.VS_MARKETPLACE_PAT }}
      publish-manifest-path: './src/vsixManifest.json'
      vsix-path: './src/outputFolder/Extension.vsix'

      # OPTIONAL
      vs-version: latest
      vs-prerelease: false

👥 Contributors

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

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