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Visual Studio extensions and version ranges demystified

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

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.

Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai He February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19

Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We'd like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code. See below for more details! Managing your Maven Dependencies Easily ...

Use your favorite extensions with Visual Studio 2019

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

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

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 Kristensen December 7, 2018 Dec 7, 2018 12/7/18

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 Kristensen October 10, 2018 Oct 10, 2018 10/10/18

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 ...

How to upgrade extensions to support Visual Studio 2019

Mads Kristensen September 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018 09/26/18

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 Kristensen September 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018 09/26/18

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 ...

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

Mads Kristensen May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 05/16/18

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 Blog January 14, 2018 Jan 14, 2018 01/14/18

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 ...

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