Visual Studio Extensibility

Learn about Visual Studio extensibility.

Get Started

Get started

• Install the Visual Studio SDK
• Write Visual Studio extensions with the Visual Studio Community Toolkit

Overview

• Writing Visual Studio extensions

Tutorial

• Create your first extension: Hello World

Extend

How-To Guide

• Menus and Commands
• Tool Windows
• Editor and Languages
• Language Server Protocol
• Settings and Options

Resources

sample

• Visual Studio Extensibility samples

Training

• ExtendVS Gitter community
• Extensibility on Visual Studio Blog

Ship extensions

How-To Guide

• Publish an extension
• Command line publishing
• Private galleries

Discover what's new

What's new

• Visual Studio 2019 SDK
• Visual Studio 2017 SDK