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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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Update Private Gallery atom such that VS shows that an extension update is available

I'm using a Visual Studio Private Gallery to publish a VSIX internal to my company. My VSIX shows up in the "Online" section of "Extensions and Updates" in Visual Studio 2012 and I can install it from there: However, once it's installed, I can't…
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How to inspect / disassemble a Visual Studio Extension

I have a visual studio extension (.vsix) which I want to inspect and/or preferably disassemble as it contains some source code that I want to research. I am using Visual C# 2010 Express Edition, however I would like an external tool if such a thing…
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Resetting Experimental instance of Visual Studio

I'm trying to develop extensions for Visual Studio and I'm going through some articles. One key point of VS extension development is to reset experimental instance of Visual Studio, which I am having problem with. For example, here is written that…
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Can't execute statement with VS Debugger Interop

I'm writing a debugger extension VSPackage in which I want to execute a statement in the debugged process when a breakpoint is hit. In my extension code I have this: void Initialize() { // ...standard vspackage init code omitted... …
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Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools configuration settings

I'm trying to figure out where the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools settings are stored. I recently moved to a new instance of visual studio and I've lost all of my Power Tools regex tab coloring settings. They are clearly not part of the…
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How to disable Visual Studio extension automatic updates in an unattended mode?

I can disable automatic extension update for a particular extension via the Extensions and Updates manager in Visual Studio. But what should I do when I want to disable automatic updates for extension FOO on all computers of my team in an unattended…
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How can I install an extension so that all users can access it?

Installing extensions in the last few versions of Visual Studio seems easy. However, as far as I understand, they are only installed for the user running the program. How can an administrator install an extension system-wide so that it is available…
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Visual Studio Editor Extension Options Dialog

I have a simple Visual Studio extension that is built in a similar manner as the one presented in this walkthrough (using the IWpfTextViewCreationListener interface). The extension uses two colors that I'd like to make configurable. How can I define…
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Access current code pane in Visual Studio Extension

Im writing a visual studio (2010) extension with a right click menu whilst in a code view. I want to be able to examine the current code from my menu item event handler but havent been able to find somewhere in the object model to do this. How do i…
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Message in visual studio "This extension is scheduled for install"

I have downloaded RDLC extension from visual studio 2017 Tools -> "Extensions & Updates" successfully & its showing me message as "This extension is scheduled for install". So I have restarted my VS2017 (VS Professional 2017 version 15.8.6 ) but…
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Visual Studio 2017 Color Theme Editor

I used Visual Studio 2015 Color Theme Editor and now I would like to use this extension for Visual Studio 2017. On the other hand, according to The Visual Studio Blog, it has not been updated yet. So, I am wondering if it is possible to use this…
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How to extend CodeLens

I'm currently writing a tool to help maintain unit and integration tests (coded tests). I've started extending Visual Studio to make the developer experience nicer, which got me to notice the new-ish CodeLens feature. The stuff I'm currently…
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Install-Package : The remote name could not be resolved: 'packages.nuget.org'

For no reason, I have been getting this error message for a week or so; PM> Install-Package Elmah Install-Package : The remote name could not be resolved: 'packages.nuget.org' At line:1 char:16 + Install-Package <<<< Elmah + CategoryInfo…
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Extension for Visual studio unknown error - unable to push or fetch anything

I have an error when I try to push anything to my bitbucket repository via Git extension for visual studio: Error encountered while pushing branch to the remote repository: Git failed with a fatal error. HttpRequestException encountered. An error…
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Now that VS2015 is out, what's a supported way to modify Roslyn, with debugging support?

The Context We'd like to modify Roslyn and be able to debug it while compiling with it. Pre-VS2015 release, doing this was a painful process that didn't flow very well. Our goal is to develop a C# variant compiler. The Dream Pre-VS2015, executing…
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