Visual Studio Extensibility

Build extensions that customize and enhance the Visual Studio IDE.

Overview

Overview

• What is Visual Studio extensibility?
• Choose your extensibility approach
• Extension project anatomy

Get started

Get started

• Install the tools
• Create your first extension
• Debug an extension

How-to

How-To Guide

• Commands
• Tool windows
• Themes, colors, and fonts
• User prompts and dialogs
• Editor extensions
• Language Server Provider
• Debugger visualizers
• Query projects and solutions
• Settings and options

Ship your extension

Deploy

• Ship overview
• Publish to the Marketplace
• Sign VSIX packages

Concept

• Localize extensions

Concepts

Concept

• Out-of-process architecture
• Remote UI
• Activation constraints
• Contributions and configurations
• Dependency injection
• Editor concepts
• In-process extensions (VSSDK)

Resources

sample

• Samples on GitHub

Reference

• API reference
• VSIX Cookbook
• Extensibility on Visual Studio Blog
• Issues