{"id":11507,"date":"2019-03-14T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=11507"},"modified":"2019-03-14T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T20:06:34","slug":"aa4hunw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa4hunw\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio extensions and version ranges demystified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Segoe UI,'Segoe UI Web Regular','Segoe UI Regular WestEuropean','Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Extension authors use visual Studio version ranges to specify what versions of Visual Studio their extensions support. A version range looks like this<\/span><strong> [14.0, 17.0)<\/strong><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Segoe UI,'Segoe UI Web Regular','Segoe UI Regular WestEuropean','Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> and specifies the minimum and maximum version of Visual Studio as well as if the edges are included or excluded. The syntax with mismatching braces may initially seem a bit odd and what exactly do those numbers refer to? Let\u2019s unravel the mystery of the Visual Studio version ranges.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extension authors use visual Studio version ranges to specify what versions of Visual Studio their extensions support. A version range looks like this [14.0, 17.0) and specifies the minimum and maximum version of Visual Studio as well as if the edges are included or excluded. The syntax with mismatching braces may initially seem a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Extension authors use visual Studio version ranges to specify what versions of Visual Studio their extensions support. A version range looks like this [14.0, 17.0) and specifies the minimum and maximum version of Visual Studio as well as if the edges are included or excluded. The syntax with mismatching braces may initially seem a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}