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Feb 18, 2025
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VisualStudio.Extensibility: Tagger support and updates to settings

Tina Schrepfer (LI)
Tina Schrepfer (LI)

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance, reliability, and installation without restarting Visual Studio. Ad...

vsixvisualstudio.extensibility
Feb 13, 2025
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New restrictions on package loading

Ryan Molden
Ryan Molden

As Visual Studio transitions its core packages and services to an async loading/retrieval model, we've identified bugs in both the initial async implementation and the existing synchronous package loading mechanism. While most of these bug fixes have been transparent to extenders, one requires attention due to changed constraints. This post high...

vsixvssdk
Feb 11, 2025
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 is Now Available!

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

We are excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. This update focuses on stability and security, along with continuous improvements for all developers using Visual Studio. Based on your feature requests, several new tools and enhancements have been added to this release. This update includes improvements for developer...

Debugging and DiagnosticsAzureGitHub Copilot
Feb 10, 2025
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VisualStudio.Extensibility: Managing .NET runtime versions

Tina Schrepfer (LI)
Tina Schrepfer (LI)

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow developers like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance and reliability, and that can be installed without the need to...

.NETvsixvisualstudio.extensibility
Nov 19, 2024
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VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.12: CodeLens support is here!

Tina Schrepfer (LI)
Tina Schrepfer (LI)

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance and reliability, and can be installed without the need to restart V...

ExtensionsVisual Studio 2022CodeLens
Nov 4, 2024
5

The making of Bring Back Plus/Minus

Marco Goertz
Marco Goertz

A lesson about the software forensics process involved in developing the Bring Back Plus/Minus extension, which brings back the plus/minus symbols to the editor outlining feature in Visual Studio 2022. While I did have the advantage of being able to look at the Visual Studio source code, I could have figured this out just as well without it, and...

ExtensionsFeedbackstory
Sep 12, 2024
2

VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.11: Settings and more Remote UI support

Dominic Nahous
Dominic Nahous

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance and reliability. Additional benefits include a sleek and intuitive ...

Extensions
Jul 29, 2024
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Sign VSIX packages with Sign CLI

Maia Kelner Dominic Nahous
Maia,
Dominic

You can now leverage Sign CLI for a more secure, modern way to sign your Visual Studio extensions. Signing your VSIX packages improves security, prevents tampering, and builds trust with your users. This integration makes it easier and more convenient to sign your packages than ever before! Sign CLI replaces the older VSIXSignTool with a mod...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
May 29, 2024
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A modern Extension Manager has arrived with Visual Studio 17.10

Maia Kelner
Maia Kelner

We’re bringing our updated Extension Manager to all users! Over the last year, we’ve made our updated Extension Manager available as an optional preview feature and have been asking you to let us know what you think. Based on your incredible feedback, we’re now ready to offer the new Extension Manager as an on-by-default preview feature starting wi...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
May 28, 2024
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VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.10: Debug your extensions with the Diagnostics Explorer

Maia Kelner
Maia Kelner

Imagine creating extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! If you haven't been following along lately, we've been working on improving the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK. VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main IDE process for improved performance and reliability. With it comes a sleek and int...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2022