Extensions

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!

Build apps for Microsoft Teams with .NET

John Miller June 7, 2021 Jun 7, 2021 06/7/21

Create, debug, and deploy web apps directly in Teams with Visual Studio and Blazor using an early preview of the Teams Toolkit extension available for Visual Studio 2019 today. Learn more about the Teams Toolkit and follow along to get started in under 5 minutes.

The Future of Visual Studio Extensions

Leslie Richardson October 28, 2020 Oct 28, 2020 10/28/20

As we continue improving Visual Studio and expanding to the cloud, let's talk about our upcoming plans to improve the ways we write and use extensions.

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.

Async loaded .NET projects may impact Visual Studio extensions

Mads Kristensen August 8, 2019 Aug 8, 2019 08/8/19

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, the CSProj project system (C#/VB non-SDK style) introduces a new way of loading called Partial Load Mode (PLM). After the solution loads, the project system is doing design time builds in the background, leaving the UI responsive and interactive. Extensions may need to adjust for this behavior change.

Theming in Visual Studio just got a lot easier

Mads Kristensen August 1, 2019 Aug 1, 2019 08/1/19

Sometimes the default themes for Visual Studio just aren’t enough. Lucky for us, we’ve just redesigned the process of creating and importing custom themes.

Checklist for writing great Visual Studio extensions

Mads Kristensen July 11, 2019 Jul 11, 2019 07/11/19

Great Visual Studio extensions share a few key features that sets them apart from the rest. They look and feel well crafted, are performant and reliable, do what they advertise to perfection, and blend in naturally among Visual Studio’s own features.

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