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I have written a language and debug engine extension for visual studio, and I'm able to create a shell application from this extension. However, I'd like to include p4vs, as it's a pain trying to install that to the shell seperately, as the installer doesn't target shell applications.

Dan Forever
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  • it is a extension for visual studio, which does not support visual studio shell, I would suggest that you could contract the author of extension. – Zhanglong Wu - MSFT Jul 07 '17 at 05:58

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I've discovered that this is indeed possible by following the instructions here.

But the basic gist is:

  1. Create a subfolder in the Extensions/ subfolder
  2. Rename the vsix extension to ".zip"
  3. Using your favourite zip file manager, extract the files to your newly created extension folder from step 1
  4. Delete the [Content_types].xml file
  5. Optionally, edit the vsixmanifest file and add InstalledByMsi="true" to the element to prevent users from uninstalling the extension via the extension manager
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