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Added a private VS extension gallery as described in
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266746.aspx

using an atom feed as described in
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266717.aspx

And got this error message:

"A connection to the server could not be established because the following error(s) occurred:

Could not determine the protocol used for this gallery. The URL must point to an Atom Feed or SharePoint List configured for hosting Visual Studio Extensions.

Please click here to retry the request."

This guy had the same problem but didn't bother to post his solution (and apparently you can't reply once it's "solved"), so here it goes:

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  1. Open up the atom.xml file with Notepad++ then check "Encode in UTF-8" under "Encoding".
  2. In the two places where there's an id after the name of the extension and 2 dots replace that id with the one from your project's Guids class. It's the first GUID in there. Alternatively you could open up the vsix file with WinRar / 7Zip and open up the extension.vsixmanifest file there (the GUID is found on top of this file).
    Edit: the 2nd id tag should just include the ID and not the name of the project and the two dots - otherwise updating the extension won't work
  3. Remove all those hyphens - in the atom.xml file in the case that you copied that from the example in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266717.aspx

The first GUID on top of the atom.xml file (the one after uuid) can be any GUID you'd like to have (create one under Visual Studio's Tools->Create GUID).

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