Cake Extension for Visual Studio
The Cake Extension for Visual Studio Add-in brings language support for Cake build scripts to Visual Studio. The extension supports new templates, a task runner explorer, and the ability to bootstrap Cake files. Cake Extension for Visual Studio can be downloaded at Visual Studio Market Place (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1392591.CakeforVisualStudio).
The .vsix
file downloaded from the marketplace is essentially a .zip
file. This file contains the contents of the Cake extensions to be installed in Visual Studio. When the downloaded .vsix
file is run, it will install Cake support for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017:

Cake templates
After installing the extension, a Cake template will be added to the available options in Visual Studio when creating new projects. The extension will add four different Cake project templates types:
- Cake Addin: This is a project template for creating Cake Addin
- Cake Addin Unit Test Project: This is the...