The GA version of AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2017 has been released to the Visual Studio Marketplace
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Today we released a preview of our AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio that includes support for the release candidate (RC) version of Visual Studio 2017. Because this Visual Studio release contains some significant changes for extension developers, we're making this preview available in advance of the formal release. We highly encourage you to pass along feedback about any issues you find or whether you were successful using the preview by commenting on this GitHub issue.
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Visual Studio 2017 also contains support for the new MSBuild project system for .NET Core projects. With this preview of the toolkit, we've updated the .NET Core Lambda support to use the new build system. For existing Lambda projects based on the Visual Studio 2015 project.json-based build system, Visual Studio 2017 offers to migrate them to the new build system when you open the projects.
Downloading and Installing the Preview
The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio contains MSBuild target files for AWS CloudFormation projects. In previous releases of Visual Studio, you had to install these files and dependencies for an extension outside of the Visual Studio folder hierarchy. This required us to use a Windows Installer to install the toolkit. Starting with Visual Studio 2017, these MSBuild extensions exist within the Visual Studio folder hierarchy and can be installed from the VSIX extension package without an installer. As the installer technology we use doesn't yet support Visual Studio 2017, we've decided to distribute the preview as a VSIX file only.
To install the preview
- Download the VSIX file from the preview link
- Double-click the VSIX file. This launches the VSIX Installer process, as shown.
After the installer finishes, the toolkit functions as it has in previous versions of Visual Studio.
All those who are using AWS might have a requirement to downloadsyncupload etc with your S3 bucket.
There are several ways to achieve that which includes some third party tool and even there are some ways via Visual Studio.
Let us check them one by one, we will take the example of downloading entire S3 bucket using below tools:
AWS CLI
The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool that provides a consistent interface for interacting with all parts of AWS.
Install AWS CLI using command sudo pip install awscli and then follow below command to download entire S3 bucket:
Using s3cmd and S3Express
Aws Visual Studio Add On
s3cmd is a third party tool which is a Command Line S3 Client and Backup for Linux and Mac and S3Express is Command Line S3 Client and S3 Backup for Windows.
You can download it from above link.
Once downloaded you can configure it as below:
You can even create and remove buckets using above tools. Have a look here for more details.
Using Visual Studio
You can download entire S3 bucket using Visual Studio. For that, you would be required to download AWS toolkit for visual studio which can be downloaded from here.
Once it is installed, go to Visual Studio – AWS Explorer – S3 – Your bucket – Double click
In the window, you will be able to select all files. Right click and download files.
Using Cyberduck
One more awesome tools for this is Cyberduck.
Cyberduck is a Libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive and OpenStack Swift browser for Mac and Windows.
It just requires your AWS credentials and you can use the simple interface to download/upload/sync any of your buckets/folders/files.
Using Rclone
Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from
- Google Drive
- Amazon S3
- Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore
- Dropbox
- Google Cloud Storage
- Amazon Drive
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Hubic
- Backblaze B2
- Yandex Disk
- SFTP
- The local filesystem
You can sync your S3 bucket by giving below commands:
Using S3Browser
S3 Browser is also one tool which can be used for above purpose. It is windows only tool.
S3 Browser is a freeware Windows client for Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon S3 provides a simple web-services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN). It can be used to deliver your files using a global network of edge locations.
Using CloudBerry
I recently checked this one and it is nice too. It has a free version for S3.
As per the website:
CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 provides a user interface to Amazon S3 accounts allowing to access, move and manage files across your local storage and S3 buckets. Amazon S3 file manager by CloudBerry is available in two versions – Freeware and PRO.
Freeware version. Free S3 browser comes with full support for such AWS features and services as Server Side Encryption, Lifecycle rules, Amazon CloudFront, Bucket Policies and more.
If you know any other awesome tools then do share it here.
Happy learning.