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Apr 19, 2019
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Build Visual Studio templates with tags, for efficient user search and grouping

Soojin Choi

Enable custom filters for your project templates with language, platform, and project type tags for increased discoverability in the New Project Dialog. In this walkthrough, you will learn how to build a Visual Studio project template, add tag(s) to it, and deploy it as a Visual Studio extension.

Visual StudioExtensions
Apr 11, 2019
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New features for extension authors in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1

Mads Kristensen

Take advantage of new features for extension authors in Visual Studio 16.1 Preview 1. This includes support for referencing Shared Projects for a VSIX project, per-monitor awareness, a new SDK meta package, and more.

Visual StudioExtensions
Apr 4, 2019
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Little great things about Visual Studio 2019

Mads Kristensen

A few days ago, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2019. But I’ve been using Visual Studio 2019 exclusively since the first internal build – long before the release of Preview 1 in December of 2018. During this time, there has been a lot of little features that have put a smile on my face and made me more productive. I want to s...

Visual StudioExtensions
Apr 2, 2019
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Live Share now included with Visual Studio 2019

Jon Chu

Today we’re excited to announce Visual Studio Live Share for generally availability and included with Visual Studio 2019! This is the culmination of over a year of hearing your feedback and building a product that enhances the many diverse ways you and your team collaborate. Regardless of whether your team is fully remote, partially distributed, or...

.NETVisual StudioDebugging and Diagnostics
Mar 29, 2019
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Visual Studio Extensibility Day at Build 2019

Mads Kristensen

Please join us for a day full of Visual Studio extensibility deep dives, geek-outs, and networking on Friday, May 10th, 2019 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Our agenda is intended for existing and new Visual Studio IDE (not VSCode) extension authors and partners and will be highly technical in nature.

Visual StudioExtensions
Mar 20, 2019
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Using Newtonsoft.Json in a Visual Studio extension

Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio ships with Newtonsoft.Json and extension authors can use it too. However, it can be confusing to understand what version to use, how binding redirects work and whether to ship Newtonsoft.Json in the extension itself. This post helps to clarify how it all works.

Visual StudioExtensions
Mar 8, 2019
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Visual Studio extensions and version ranges demystified

Mads Kristensen

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.

Visual StudioExtensions
Feb 26, 2019
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Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai He

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 Editing p...

JavaExtensionsAnnouncement
Feb 22, 2019
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Use your favorite extensions with Visual Studio 2019

Mads Kristensen

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 e...

Visual StudioExtensionsVisual Studio 2019
Dec 20, 2018
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Build Visual Studio extensions using Visual Studio extensions

Mads Kristensen

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.

ExtensionsTips and Tricks