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Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update

October 15, 2018 Oct 15, 2018 10/15/18
Visual Studio Blog
Update: Launch is now scheduled for mid-November to ensure you have the best blog experience. We appreciate all of the feedback so far and we look forward to showing what we’ve been working on! In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it ...

Simplify extension development with PackageReference and the VSSDK meta package

October 10, 2018 Oct 10, 2018 10/10/18
Mads Kristensen
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 made it possible to use the PackageReference syntax to reference NuGet packages in Visual Studio Extensibility (VSIX) projects. This makes it much simpler to reason about NuGet packages and opens the door for having a complete meta package containing the entire VSSDK. Before using PackageReference, here’s ...

Introducing ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Developer Community

October 9, 2018 Oct 9, 2018 10/9/18
John Montgomery
Customer feedback is a critical input to help us improve Visual Studio. Up until two years ago, the Visual Studio customer feedback system left room for improvement – customers could use the “send a smile” feature in Visual Studio, but this would result in only coarse-grained feedback such as “I like this” or “I don’t like this...

Getting started writing Visual Studio extensions

September 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018 09/26/18
Mads Kristensen
I’m often asked how to best learn to build Visual Studio extensions, so here is what I wished someone told me before I got started. Don’t skip the introduction It’s easy to create a new extensibility project in Visual Studio, but unless you understand the basics of how the extensibility system works, then you are setting yourself up ...

Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor

August 30, 2018 Aug 30, 2018 08/30/18
Allison Buchholtz-Au
Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Many of these are the result of your direct feedback coming from the UserVoice requests, Developer Community tickets, and direct feedback we’ve encountered while talking to developers like you...