Extensibility

Learn to write Visual Studio extensions

Mads Kristensen October 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021 10/13/21

Writing extension for Visual Studio can be a daunting task for even the seasoned developer. Figuring out where to start is a not obvious and the whole process a bit mysterious. At least, that’s what you’ve told over the years from trying to write extensions. That’s why we’re now introducing a new video series to make extension writing ...

Avoiding Memory Leaks in Visual Studio Editor Extensions

Christian Gunderman September 24, 2021 Sep 24, 2021 09/24/21

Visual Studio extenders make VS even better by augmenting it with specialized tools, new languages, and workflows. As a Visual Studio extender, you can ensure your extension’s customers have the most performant, reliable experience possible by avoiding common sources of memory leaks, described within this blog post. Background In the early...

The Future of Visual Studio Extensibility is Here!

Leslie Richardson September 9, 2021 Sep 9, 2021 09/9/21

Visual Studio 2022 seeks to greatly improve your overall development experience, and we're moving forward with that journey in improving VS extension writing and usage today! We have several exciting extensibility updates that are either available now or on the horizon, so let's check them out!

Boost your productivity with Productivity Power Tools Extensions in Visual Studio 2022!

Leslie Richardson August 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 08/31/21

Need a set of extensions to help improve your productivity? We’re excited to announce that one of the most popular and anticipated sets of extensions is now available to download for VS 2022 today: Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2022!

[Guest Post] Better refactoring for Unity projects using .NET analyzers

John Miller February 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021 02/10/21

In this guest post, Visual Studio Tools for Unity intern Shreya Pandit shows how she created custom analyzers for Unity, and how you can get involved with the open source project as well.

Live coding Visual Studio extensions

Mads Kristensen August 17, 2020 Aug 17, 2020 08/17/20

Writing extension for Visual Studio can be a challenging affair. It also happens to be extremely satisfying and a lot of fun. But even with our getting-started guidance, there is still a lot to learn, explore, and keeping up with. After 10 years and over 130 extensions, I still learn something new every time I write an extension. So why not ...

Use Visual Studio in Presentation Mode

Mads Kristensen August 10, 2020 Aug 10, 2020 08/10/20

Have you ever seen a presentation using Visual Studio, but had a hard time seeing the too-small fonts in the editor, Solution Explorer and menu system? How about all the custom extensions and themes the presenter used, making it harder to figure out what exactly was going on? Perhaps you were the presenter? Here’s how Visual Studio ...

Visual Studio extensibility is better with IntelliCode

Mads Kristensen October 8, 2019 Oct 8, 2019 10/8/19

Installing the Visual Studio extension development workload presents you with a choice of optional components. Looking at the list might leave you rather confused, because how are various C++ components and the Class Designer especially relevant to writing extension? And where is IntelliCode?

Watch the latest Visual Studio extensibility videos

Mads Kristensen September 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019 09/26/19

We have been posting several short videos about Visual Studio extensibility to our YouTube channel in the past couple of months. We chose the topics for the first videos, but now it’s time for you to tell us what videos to record next.

The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio

Ruben Rios August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19

While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we added a new Developer PowerShell! Using the new Developer PowerShell We also added two new menu entries, ...

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