VS 2019 gives a warning that this Extension uses a depricated API

[dparvin]

When I have this Extension loaded in the latest VS 2019 (in this case Preview 4.1, but it will happen in RC.1 as well because they are the same bits) I get a warning that says I have some Extensions that are using a deprecated API. There is a link to Synchronously autoloaded extensions page that talks about the problem. The extension seems to work great in VS 2019, but for this one thing. If at some point they stop supporting this API, this extension will stop working.

[sharwell]

@dparvin This is a bug in Visual Studio 2019. The APIs the IDE is claiming are required do not exist in the context of this extension, so there is no way to adopt them.

/cc @madskristensen

[dparvin]

Ok, cool, thanks.

[rfennell]

I am seeing the same issue on one of my (extensions. Given the comments above from @sharwell am I ok in ingoring the warning?

[sharwell]

@rfennell send me a message on gitter Monday and we can see if there's a different way to handle it for your extension.

[tb-mtg]

Below may help?

Extension authors can find instructions for migrating packages to asynchronous autoload at Migrate to AsyncPackage.

[sharwell]

@tb-mtg See #17 (comment)

[dsparkplug]

Visual Studio 16.1 won't load this extension by default, unless you allow depreciated API usage. Doesn't this just require basing the FindInSolutionExplorerPackage class on AsyncPackage rather than Package and then overriding InitializeAsync() instead of Initialize() so that the package loads asynchronously?

[sharwell]

@dsparkplug there is no AsyncPackage in Visual Studio 2012, which this extension supports.

[dsparkplug]

Does it really need to support VS 2012 in 2019?

Or maybe the extension could be split into two packages one supporting 2019 and another supporting earlier versions. See this stack overflow answer for further discussion on this.