Some resources about Visual Studio Extensibility

A couple of readers have posted questions about Visual Studio Extensibility, DTE, your own packages, commands, experimental hive etc. To be frank, I’m not an expert in this field, so instead of trying to answer these questions, I will point to some better resources for VSX (VS Extensibility):

• https://blogs.msdn.com/vsxfaq/ – VSX FAQ!
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/vsx
• https://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam – VS Extensibility Team’s blog
• https://blogs.msdn.com/vsxue/
• https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/threads – MSDN forum about VSX
• https://stackoverflow.com – whenever you have a specific question, it’s always worth trying to ask on StackOverflow
• https://blogs.msdn.com/quanto – Quan To’s Visual Studio Extensibility blog
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb166424(VS.80).aspx - VSPackages
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb164725(VS.80).aspx - How to: Create VSPackages (C#)

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2009
  Welcome to the 49th edition of Community Convergence. The big excitment of late has been the recent release