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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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Missing Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor when installing Visual Studio extension

I am trying to get scrcpy to run in Visual Studio by using this extension and determine if I can extend its features. Unable to install a VSIX extension for Visual Studio 2019 Installation fails indicating: I updated the and…
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How to Create an Extension for SSMS 2019 (v18)

SQL Server Management Studio 18 RC1 became available March 28, 2018 This question has already been asked for SSMS 17, but there are slight variations when authoring extensions for different releases of SQL Server Management Studio. What are the…
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Insert a new GUID to Visual Studio 2012

Is it possible to create a code snippet or something similar to automate the process of generating and inserting GUIDs in to the text editor in Visual Studio 2012? I frequently need to generate new GUIDs (WiX installer for example, as well as our…
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Visual Studio 2010 extension for Go To Interface Implementation?

Possible Duplicate: How do you quickly find the implementation(s) of an interface’s method? I like ReSharper's Go To Implementation feature but I often keep ReSharper disabled. Is there an equivalent extension for Visual Studio 2010?
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Why does Json.NET require System.Xml.Linq v5.0.5 for serialization of a simple object?

I have the following object: public class ProjectInfo { public string ConnectionStringName { get; set; } public string DefaultEntityNamespace { get; set; } public string DefaultSharedNamespace { get; set; } public string…
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Sync Extensions in Visual Studio 2013 between multiple machines

I'm sure this is a common problem, but I can't find much info about it. Problem I have a work computer, a home computer, a surface, and maybe some Azure VMs that i'd like my visual studio 2013 extensions synced across them. I seem to have to…
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Add custom editor windows to Visual Studio window panes

My Problem I'm trying to build an extension to Visual Studio that allows code to be edited on a per-function basis, rather than a per-file basis. I'm basically attempting to display code in a similar fashion to Microsoft Debugger Canvas. I'm…
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Visual Studio 2012 is unresponsive at start with hidden error messages (two dings at start)

After latest update of Azure tools, Visual Studio 2012 does not work correctly. Looks like an unresponsive application, loading project very long, menu does not work too and you can hear two dings at start (like error message boxes, but there is no…
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"microsoft visual studio preparation" extremely slow

While updating or uninstalling Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension Preview the step "Microsoft Visual Studio Preparation" is taking enormous amount of time. I may say it gets stuck. My suspicion is the installer (Windows one, not the…
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Visual Studio SDK - Handle File Save Event

I would like to run a script after files with certain extensions are saved in visual studio. I am wondering where the event handler for saving a file is located in the Visual Studio SDK API. Can anyone point me in the right direction in terms of API…
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How to set "Break on All Exceptions", from a Package

I want to make an extension to quickly toggle breaking on CLR exceptions in debugger. I have made tried several approaches, neither of which is satisfactory. Here is what I have already tried: ExceptionSettings.SetBreakWhenThrown (MSDN) This is…
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How do I subscribe to solution and project events from a VSPackage

I'm developing a language service for Visual Studio through a VSPackage. I need to update my parse data whenever files get added/removed from the solution's projects. I want to subscribe to solution and project events. I tried as follows, but none…
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Cannot run VSPackage when developing on multiple machines

We are working on a VSPackage in a team, using Visual Studio 2012 and TFS. The extension works fine on the computer used to create it (through a wizard). On another computer, Visual Studio says that "a project with output type of class library…
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Restrictions on installing extensions or add-ins in Visual Studio 2010 Express

I installed MSVC++ 2010 Express and trying to figure which extensions (vsix) are available to install. There are some extensions in the Extension Manager (section Online Gallery). All of them from Visual Studio Gallery. To be sure I installed some…
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Uninstall Visual F#

I use Visual Studio 2013, and it have a pretty feature to notify and install all extension updates. So, this is very good, but I receive sometimes the request to install the updates for the features I never use. By example, it proposes me to…
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