Episode

What is a Visual Studio Extension? (2 of 7) | Visual Studio Extensions

with Maia Kelner, Leslie Richardson

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Welcome to the Visual Studio Extensions series, where you will see how to write a Visual Studio extension with ease and increased reliability. In this episode, Maia Kelner gives a refresher on what is considered a Visual Studio extension and some common words/phrases associated with them that you'll hear about throughout this series.

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 01:30 - Overview of extensions
  • 02:20 - Three common scenarios
  • 05:40 - Ways to interact with users
  • 07:25 - Writing, packaging, and installing extensions
  • 08:45 - Commands
  • 09:50 - Tool windows
  • 12:20 - Editor
  • 16:20 - Shell
  • 17:00 - Things you should know about before writing an extension
  • 20:15 - Designing an extension
  • 23:40 - Wrap up

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