Investigate File > Open Folder experiences

[mousetraps]

As we investigate the File > Open Folder experiences, we should keep in mind the following open Qs

Extensibility

• How do we register as an File > Open provider?

Performance

• Why does it take so long to open a folder?
• is there any way to mitigate this issue?

Project System

• how to determine File > Open Folder project context?
• What areas does our current featureset depend on the existing project system? For each of these areas, how do we extend File > Open Folder to make it happen?
• How to determine Node.js project context?

Editing / IntelliSense

• how to supply Node.js-specific tsconfig.json w/o explictly adding it to the project?

Telemetry

• How to determine # Node.js projects?
• Any current telemetry?

Debugging / Build

• how do we set options / debug flags?
  • current options?
  • any future options we should consider?
• msbuild as a "case study" - what would it take?

Roaming between VS / VSCode

• what does that look like?
• are there any existing efforts to bring them closer together?

[paulvanbrenk]

implemented