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1. #YOUTUBE HOW TO USE MICROSOFT TOOLKIT 2.5.1 INSTALL#
2. #YOUTUBE HOW TO USE MICROSOFT TOOLKIT 2.5.1 SOFTWARE#
3. #YOUTUBE HOW TO USE MICROSOFT TOOLKIT 2.5.1 CODE#

The Isolated Shell template is used to package an extension in a version of the Visual Studio shell that you can brand and distribute as your own.

#YOUTUBE HOW TO USE MICROSOFT TOOLKIT 2.5.1 CODE#

You can also use this template to package project templates, code snippets, and other artifacts for distribution to other users.įor C++, the VSPackage wizard provides the code to add menu commands, tool windows, and custom editors. MEF extensions are used to extend or customize the Visual Studio editor.įor Visual C# and Visual Basic extensions, the VSSDK provides an empty VSIX project template that you can use together with the new item templates that create menu commands, tool windows, and editor extensions. In general, VSPackage extensions are used for extensions that use or extend commands, tool windows, and projects. The two main types of extensions are VSPackages and MEF extensions. What project templates are provided by the VSSDK? With light bulbs, you can add refactoring suggestions and code fixes to support new programming languages.Įxtending Properties and the Property Window You can create new statement completions, suggestions, and new QuickInfo tooltips. For instance, you could add new properties to the Properties, or you could create a new tool window to add additional features.Įditor and Language Service Extensions: add your own customizations to the IntelliSense provided for Visual Studio languages, or create support for new programming languages. You can also provide custom shortcuts for your menu items.Įxtending and Customizing Tool Windows: extend existing tool windows or create your own tool windows. You can use them to launch new Visual Studio functionality or your own external helper applications. Here are links to the relevant sections:Įxtending Menus and Commands: add your own items to Visual Studio menus and toolbars. In practice, we have found that the features most people want to extend are commands, menus and toolbars, windows, IntelliSense, and projects. In theory, you can extend just about any part of Visual Studio: menus, toolbars, commands, windows, solutions, projects, editors, and so on. Which Visual Studio features can I extend? Many extensions are open sourced, and the Marketplace includes links to their GitHub repo. Productivity tools that extend the core IDE experience with additional templates, code refactoring, new dialogs or tool windowsĭomain-specific designers for scenarios like data design or cloud supportįor examples of extensions, check out the Visual Studio Marketplace.

Support for languages that aren't included in Visual Studio, with syntax coloring, IntelliSense, and compiler and debug support Here are some examples of the kinds of extensions you can build: Of course, most extensions have something to do with writing code, but that doesn't have to be the case.

The sky's the limit when it comes to imagining different Visual Studio extensions. What kinds of things can I do with Visual Studio extensions?

#YOUTUBE HOW TO USE MICROSOFT TOOLKIT 2.5.1 INSTALL#

For more information about installing the Visual Studio SDK, see Install the Visual Studio SDK. You can install the Visual Studio SDK as part of regular setup, or you can install it later on. You need to install the Visual Studio SDK in addition to Visual Studio in order to develop Visual Studio extensions.

#YOUTUBE HOW TO USE MICROSOFT TOOLKIT 2.5.1 SOFTWARE#

What software do I need to develop Visual Studio extensions? For Visual Studio Code, see Visual Studio Code Extension API. For Visual Studio for Mac, see Extending Visual Studio for Mac. This article applies to Visual Studio on Windows.