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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...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
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...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
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 ...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
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 ...

ExtensionsAccessibilityExperiment
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 ...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
Aug 4, 2022
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Differentiating Visual Studio instances

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

When you have multiple instances of Visual Studio open at the same time, it can be tricky to tell them apart. Especially if you’re working on different branches of the same solution, which makes them look almost identical. What if each instance could have a unique color so you could instantly tell them apart? Would you use it? The Peacock ex...

ExtensionsExperiment
Jul 12, 2022
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Analysis Services and Reporting Services extensions for Visual Studio 2022 are here!

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

We’re happy to announce the popular and long-awaited Analysis Services, RDLC Report Designer, and Reporting Services extensions are available for Visual Studio 2022!  Here’s how these Microsoft extensions for SQL Server can further enhance your business intelligence solution development environment. SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) The Microso...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
Dec 8, 2021
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VS 2022 Launch Recap: Extensibility

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

The recent Visual Studio 2022 Launch event was jam-packed with content, and that included updates on extensibility! Check out the VS 2022 Launch videos on extensibility that you may have missed!

ExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
Dec 7, 2021
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How Can We Improve Extensibility in Visual Studio?

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

We are working on exciting, major updates to how extensions are written and used in Visual Studio, but it’s a long road to completing them.  In the meantime, we’d love your ideas on what we can do in the more immediate future to improve how you use or write extensions.

ExtensionsVisual Studio 2022
Nov 16, 2021
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Writing extensions just got easier

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

In collaboration with the open source community, we’re introducing a new toolkit for writing Visual Studio extensions. Extensions used to be difficult to write, but the new toolkit makes it easier than ever. The toolkit consists of brand-new tooling inside Visual Studio as well as new APIs to code against. It’s all included in the free Extensibilit...

ExtensionsGetting Started