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Use your favorite extensions with Visual Studio 2019

Mads KristensenFebruary 22, 2019Feb 22, 201902/22/19

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

Mads KristensenDecember 20, 2018Dec 20, 201812/20/18

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.

New Preview label for Visual Studio extensions

Mads KristensenDecember 7, 2018Dec 7, 201812/7/18

Visual Studio extensions can now be marked with a Preview label which is shown very clearly on the Visual Studio Marketplace. This gives your customers clear expectations that this version could contain issues as you are actively developing new features. Learn how to enable the Preview label here.

Simplify extension development with PackageReference and the VSSDK meta package

Mads KristensenOctober 10, 2018Oct 10, 201810/10/18

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 made it possible to use the PackageReference syntax to reference NuGet packages in Visual Studio Extensibility (VSIX) projects. This makes it much simpler to reason about NuGet packages and opens the door for having a complete meta package containing the entire VSSDK. Before using PackageReference, here’s w

How to upgrade extensions to support Visual Studio 2019

Mads KristensenSeptember 26, 2018Sep 26, 201809/26/18

Recently, I’ve updated over 30 of my extensions to support Visual Studio 2019 (16.0). To make sure they work, I got my hands on a very early internal build of VS 2019 to test with (working on the Visual Studio team has its benefits). This upgrade process is one of the easiest I’ve ever experienced. I wanted to share my steps with you to

Getting started writing Visual Studio extensions

Mads KristensenSeptember 26, 2018Sep 26, 201809/26/18

I’m often asked how to best learn to build Visual Studio extensions, so here is what I wished someone told me before I got started. Don’t skip the introduction It’s easy to create a new extensibility project in Visual Studio, but unless you understand the basics of how the extensibility system works, then you are setting yourself up fo

Improving the responsiveness of critical scenarios by updating auto load behavior for extensions

Mads KristensenMay 16, 2018May 16, 201805/16/18

The Visual Studio team partners with extension authors to provide a productive development environment for users, who rely on a rich ecosystem of quality extensions. Today, we're introducing an update to extension auto load based on feedback from our community of developers, who need to quickly start Visual Studio and load their solution while

Support for Continuous Delivery to Containers and TFVC in Visual Studio 15.6 Preview 2

Visual Studio BlogJanuary 14, 2018Jan 14, 201801/14/18

We have an update for the Configure Continuous Delivery feature in Visual Studio. For Solutions with an ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core projects you can right click on the solution node and select “Configure Continuous Delivery…"with and without container support. You can always configure Continuous Delivery for solutions under source control in G

Announcing Language Server Protocol Preview Release

Visual Studio BlogNovember 21, 2017Nov 21, 201711/21/17

Visual Studio is joining Visual Studio Code in offering support for the Language Server Protocol. As an extension author, you can now write Visual Studio extensions that leverage existing language servers to provide a rich editing experience for languages that initially had no native language support in Visual Studio. With these extensions, yo

Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai HeNovember 10, 2017Nov 10, 201711/10/17

In the past 3 weeks, we’ve continued to see a lot of people installing and trying our tools, reading our documents, and visiting our repository. We’ve also seen a number of new issues opened by the Java community. Thank you all for trying our tools and providing feedback, all of which is motivating us to make VS Code a better tool for Java

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