Is Paket required for FSharp.CosmosDb.Analyzer?

[mabasic]

I am using dotnet add package, but I don't have the packages directory anywhere.

[aaronpowell]

You don't need to use paket for the analyzer, it's just the easiest way to control install locations, as you need to provide a path to the analyzer for Ionide to get it from.

[mabasic]

Do you know how can I install the package and tell Ionide its location by using dotnet and not paket?

I'm new to the .NET ecosystem..

[aaronpowell]

You can use the --package-directory flag on the dotnet add package command.

[mabasic]

I am using:

dotnet add package FSharp.CosmosDb.Analyzer --package-directory ./packages

This creates a new directory called packages and inside it places a whole bunch of things. I assume that I need to add this directory to gitignore?

[mabasic]

I have tried everything that came to mind, read all the blog posts and still I can't get this to work.

How do I know if the analyzer is picked up in ionide?

Is this related to: ionide/FSharp.Analyzers.SDK#9

Resources:

• https://medium.com/lambda-factory/introducing-f-analyzers-772487889429
• http://kcieslak.io/Introducing-F-Analyzers (same as above)
• https://ionide.io/Libraries/fsanalyzers.html
• https://github.com/ionide/FSharp.Analyzers.SDK

[aaronpowell]

I'll admit to never having tried with NuGet so it may be related to that problem.

From my understanding of how analyzers work, they require the path to the folder the DLL is in, and for it to be there when the Ionide plugin starts up, so it can load.

If you look into the Ionide logs in VS Code you might get some insights

[mabasic]

Do you know where I can find Ionide logs in VS code, I can't seem to find them?

[aaronpowell]

In the VS Code output pane there's a drop down list with all the different output logs. Ionide appears as F# something