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May 28, 2024
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VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.10: Debug your extensions with the Diagnostics Explorer

Maia Kelner
Maia Kelner

Imagine creating extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! If you haven't been following along lately, we've been working on improving the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK. VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main IDE process for improved performance and reliability. With it comes a sleek and int...

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May 21, 2024
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Maximizing joy and minimizing toil with great developer experiences

Amanda Silver
Amanda Silver

The future always starts with developers. They determine the speed of innovation, and never has that been more true than today, in the era of Generative AI. We’re already seeing GenAI have a profound impact on the way that we build applications and collaborate with our colleagues. More developers will be empowered to create with technology by havin...

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Feb 21, 2024
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A Streamlined Extension Manager comes to Visual Studio 17.9

Maia Kelner
Maia Kelner

Over the last year, we’ve been building a better Extension Manager for Visual Studio that makes it easier for you to find and install great extensions. Along the way, we’ve invited Visual Studio Preview users to try out the new design and share their feedback with us. Using all that amazing feedback, we added features, made improvements, and fixed ...

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Feb 20, 2024
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VisualStudio.Extensibility: Install extensions without restarting Visual Studio!

Maia Kelner
Maia Kelner

The new VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK helps you build extensions that run outside of the main IDE process for improved performance and reliability. With a focus on developer productivity, it features a modern, intuitive .NET Core-based API and solid, well-maintained documentation. This public preview release builds on our previous developer pre...

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Feb 7, 2024
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Developing With Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft  

Nandita Gupta
Nandita Gupta

December 3rd was celebrated as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, or IDPWD, to bring awareness and understanding of the issues that people with disabilities face around the world. At Microsoft, we are committed to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and that includes empowering developers t...

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Jul 17, 2023
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Introducing a powerful new Extension Manager

Maia Kelner
Maia Kelner

The Visual Studio Marketplace is filled with incredible extensions that let you customize your IDE, boost your productivity, and integrate with your other development tools. We’ve heard feedback from developers like you that it can be difficult to find important information like ratings and full-length descriptions when browsing the Marketplace wit...

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Mar 2, 2023
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Build Better Extensions with VisualStudio.Extensibility Preview 3!

Maia Kelner
Maia Kelner

Today, we’re very excited to announce the third public preview of VisualStudio.Extensibility, our new SDK for creating extensions for Visual Studio! The VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK focuses on extensions that run out-of-process from the IDE for improved performance and reliability, and it features a modern API that has been streamlined and car...

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Sep 22, 2022
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Now Introducing Arm64 Support for VS Extensions!

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

Back in June, we announced Arm64 Visual Studio 2022 application, the first version of Visual Studio that natively supports building and debugging Arm64 apps on Arm-based processors.  Now, we’re excited to announce the extensions you write, and use, are supported in Arm64 VS!   Adding Arm64 support to your new or existing extension Making ...

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Sep 5, 2022
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Adding color to bracket pairs

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

When dealing with deeply nested brackets in Visual Studio, it can be hard to figure out which brackets match and which do not. For people with color blindness or other optic maladies, the problem can be even worse. By color-coding bracket pairs, we’re making this much easier. Various IDE’s and editors offer this feature today – usually done ...

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Aug 10, 2022
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VisualStudio.Extensibility: A New Way to Write Extensions

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

Last year, we announced the first phase of a new extensibility model for Visual Studio.  This new model will make extensions easier to write and more reliable along with additional benefits such as being able to install these extensions without restarting the IDE.  Now, we’re excited to announce the second phase of the new extensibility model, now ...

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