SDK and VS Code: No plug-ins visible in Editor

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Hello,

I having a spot of trouble getting plugins/teststeps to turn up in the Editor. While I can seem to generate Python template plug-ins in VS Code and locate them via the search path, I struggle to do the same with the SDK and VS Code.

The motivation for doing so, is the abundance of examples for .NET/C#/SDK and the chance to skip an extra level of API (Python).

I installed OpenTAP 9.28.0, the Developer’s System (using an evaluation license), the SDK package, VS Code and .NET 8.0 SDK (v8.0? No particular reason).

The creation of new project and teststep templates seems to work, but I am struggling to find out how to debug/build the plugin properly (in vscode) and make it visible to the Editor or TUI.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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I seem to have triggered the “dotnet: build” with the standard new project template. Based on some posts below, apparently one only has to copy the pluginname.dll to a similarly named folder under Packages to use it (is it really that simple?).

Lo and behold, the template plug-in and test step are now visible in Editor.

On with the hacking, I suppose: Carry on, nothing to see here.