Visual Studio Software Development Kit (SDK)

The Visual Studio SDK includes documentation, samples, and code to help you develop products that integrate with the Visual Studio development system.

The Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Center on the MSDN Web site offers the latest news and information about Visual Studio extensibility. You can download the latest Visual Studio SDK release from this Microsoft web site.

In This Section

• Introducing the Visual Studio SDK
  Describes how you can automate and extend Visual Studio, and links to more detailed information.

• Extending Visual Studio Overview
  Describes how you can extend the Visual Studio development environment.

• Customizing for Testing By Using the Visual Studio SDK
  Shows how you can extend Team Edition for Testers to add new test types.

• Visual Studio SDK Reference
  Provides links to various references.

Related Sections

• Visual Studio
  Contains the documentation for Visual Studio.