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Visual Studio tips and tricks

June 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019 06/25/19

Mads Kristensen

Whether you are new or have been using Visual Studio for years, there are a bunch of tips and tricks that can make you more productive. We’ve been sharing tips on Twitter using the #vstip hashtag for a while, and this is a collection of the best ones so far.

Create a private gallery for self-hosted Visual Studio extensions

June 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019 06/11/19

Mads Kristensen

Most Visual Studio extension authors publish their extensions to the public Marketplace to allow everyone to install them and benefit from the large and open ecosystem. However, some companies create extensions for internal use only. A private gallery allows them to distribute these extensions with ease.

Visual Studio Extensibility Day 2019 was a hit

May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 05/29/19

Mads Kristensen

On Friday, May 10th we hosted both internal and external Visual Studio extension authors in the Workshop room in building 18 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. It was a full day event with keynotes and sessions for 60 attendees – half of which attended //build earlier that same week, and half who came just for the Extensibility Day.

Updates to synchronous autoload of extensions in Visual Studio 2019

May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio 2019 starts blocking synchronously autoloaded extensions in version 16.1. We’ve seen a tremendous effort of both 1st- and 3rd-party extensions to implement async background load. It’s been truly amazing to see the community of extension authors stepping up to the task.

New features for extension authors in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1

April 11, 2019 Apr 11, 2019 04/11/19

Mads Kristensen

Take advantage of new features for extension authors in Visual Studio 16.1 Preview 1. This includes support for referencing Shared Projects for a VSIX project, per-monitor awareness, a new SDK meta package, and more.

Visual Studio Extensibility Day at Build 2019

March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19

Mads Kristensen

Please join us for a day full of Visual Studio extensibility deep dives, geek-outs, and networking on Friday, May 10th, 2019 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Our agenda is intended for existing and new Visual Studio IDE (not VSCode) extension authors and partners and will be highly technical in nature.

Using Newtonsoft.Json in a Visual Studio extension

March 20, 2019 Mar 20, 2019 03/20/19

Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio ships with Newtonsoft.Json and extension authors can use it too. However, it can be confusing to understand what version to use, how binding redirects work and whether to ship Newtonsoft.Json in the extension itself. This post helps to clarify how it all works.