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Jun 2, 2025
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Extension Manager updates in Visual Studio

Javier De la Garza
Javier De la Garza

The latest updates in Visual Studio 2022 introduced features specifically designed to improve how you manage extensions. These updates offer tools that help you automate processes, provide detailed controls for configuration, and enhance the user interface to streamline your development workflows. Seamless auto updates Visual Studio now automatic...

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May 28, 2025
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Improve the commands in your extensions

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

As Visual Studio extension authors, our goal is to create tools that empower developers across diverse environments. A key part of this mission involves ensuring that your extension commands remain accessible and consistent across all Visual Studio locales. In your VSSDK extensions, by adding the CanonicalName property to your commands in the .vsct...

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May 27, 2025
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VisualStudio.Extensibility: Editor classification and updates to user prompt

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Nov 4, 2024
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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...

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Sep 12, 2024
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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 ...

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