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Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement

May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019 05/28/19

Erich(Renyong) Wang

We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. The extension provides a rich set of functionalities to support development of IoT Edge solutions with Visual Studio 2019: (image) (image) Prerequisites ...

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.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 2

April 24, 2019 Apr 24, 2019 04/24/19

Paul Chapman

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 2 is now available with performance and reliability improvements as well as enhancements to C++, debugging, extensibility, and the IDE experience.

Build Visual Studio templates with tags, for efficient user search and grouping

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

Soojin Choi

Enable custom filters for your project templates with language, platform, and project type tags for increased discoverability in the New Project Dialog. In this walkthrough, you will learn how to build a Visual Studio project template, add tag(s) to it, and deploy it as a Visual Studio extension.

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.

Visual Studio extensions and version ranges demystified

March 8, 2019 Mar 8, 2019 03/8/19

Mads Kristensen

Explains how Visual Studio versioning works, how extenders should think about it, why there is no Visual Studio version 13.0, and why the year 2213 is the closest we’ll ever get to an alignment again.

Use your favorite extensions with Visual Studio 2019

February 22, 2019 Feb 22, 2019 02/22/19

Mads Kristensen

Do you want to try the preview of Visual Studio 2019 but worry that your favorite extensions aren’t supported yet? A record number of extensions have already added support for Visual Studio 2019. So there is a good chance your favorite extensions are among them. In fact, more than 850 extensions are currently available, and more are being updated every day.

Build Visual Studio extensions using Visual Studio extensions

December 20, 2018 Dec 20, 2018 12/20/18

Mads Kristensen

What if the community of extension authors banded together to add powerful features to Visual Studio that made it easier to create extensions? That’s the idea behind Extensibility Essentials – an extension pack that ships community-recommended extensions for extension authors.

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