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Products and Extensions for Visual Studio which help you get the most out of Visual Studio.

The Visual Studio Gallery provides quick access to tools, controls, and templates to help you get the most out of Visual Studio.

Microsoft also offers a tutorial, where you can gather basic informations on how to develop extensions yourself

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How can I find the automapper profiles from the mapping?

I have a lots of mapping profiles, how can I find the correct mapping configuration from specific map operation in source code? Can Resharper or a Visual Studio extension help? I would like to jump from this: var userDto = this.mapper.Map
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Export/Import VS extensions list?

Is there an easy way to backup the installed extensions list in VS (2017), so that when I install the machine anew I can easily install my regular extensions at once? Note: I've found this question that asks an identical question to my own, except…
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Basic VS extension to run snippet and render out results (similar to watch)

I'd like to develop an extension for Visual Studio that runs a small snippet of code during runtime once a breakpoint's been hit. To add some clarity, I pretty much want to call some code just as I would by manually writing it in the immediate…
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Unable to find an entry point named '?' in DLL 'PkgdefMgmt.dll' on Visual Studio 2017 (VS 2017)

I'm getting the error: Unable to find an entry point named '?' in DLL 'PkgdefMgmt.dll' when installing a Visual Studio Extension (vsix) for VS 2017. This extension was developed in VS2015, so i thought i'd upgrade, recompile, and reinstall it, but…
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Visual Studio Extension - set "Copy To Output Directory" property

I'm creating a VS extension, and I want to add a file to solution and set some properties. One of them is Copy to output directory, but I cannot find a way of setting it. Setting Build action works fine, but the desired property is not even listed…
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Difference between NuGet packages and extensions

In Visual Studio under Tools menu, what is the difference between "NuGet Package Manager" -> "Manage NuGet Packages for Solution..." and "Extensions and Updates..." ?
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Replacing text in document while preserving the caret

I am working on an extension that uses an external program to format code inside Visual Studio. If I replace the contents of the file using ITextEdit.Replace(...) the caret will be put at the end of the document, which is wrong. What I'm trying to…
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Visual Studio: Custom Syntax Coloring

Most programming language options in Visual Studio have built-in syntax coloring. However, I am required to use Assembly Language for my purpose. I have tried various Assembly Language syntax highlighting extensions, but some data types wouldn't be…
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PowerShell Script to Create Visual Studio Project Template Extension Zip Issue

I'm trying to write a PowerShell script to write a Visual Studio extension which will simply add a project template. Here is a trimmed down version of the script to demonstrate the problem: # Add the assemblies Add-Type -Assembly…
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Visual Studio 2010 Extension - Show infobar on top of document

Starting from Visual Studio 2015, the extensions SDK supports showing an infobar on top of a document window: see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt300796.aspx#BKMK_Infobars. Unfortunately that functionallity is not available for VS2010. As…
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Bind Mouse Side Buttons to VisualStudio Actions

I try to redirect the XButton 1 and 2 (Side Buttons of the mouse) to specific Visual Studio actions. When I press the XButton1 I want to compile the project / build it. This action is bound to F6 by default. When I press the XButton2 I want to…
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AngularJS debugging tools for IE like Batarang

I was wondering if there are any alternative plugins to the Chrome extension Batarang as far as debugging and profiling for Internet Explorer (it can even be Edge, that would be fine). Our organization has recently banned Chrome and we do heavy…
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Node tools slowing down visual studio

Is there any configuration that i can set so that node tools does not slow down visual studio? I cant uninstall node tools because i need to use it , but it slows down vs a heck of a lot and just opening up the properties window for a project…
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How to debug VSIX extension in VS which is of other version then version of VS SDK being used

I have a solution with my Visual Studio extension. This extension should work in any VS version since VS2010. That's because I use VS 2010 SDK. I made hacks to bind my projects to VS2010 SDK assemblies and targets to work without SDK installed -…
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