Learn How to Extend Visual Studio
Millions of developers in both small and large enterprises use Visual Studio to more easily use the latest platform technology to revolutionize the way they build, maintain, and deploy today’s complex business applications. Visual Studio supports a rich, diverse ecosystem of developers who ship thousands of Visual Studio integrated products to make it easy for Visual Studio users to use their favorite tool their way.
And if someone else hasn’t created it, you can -- the Visual Studio SDK is freely available to the developer community and contains everything you need to extend Visual Studio. With Visual Studio, you’ll find new opportunities to build extensions for specific development needs. These include the Visual Studio Shell, a foundational IDE for custom tools and programming languages, Domain-Specific Language (DSL) tools, a set of tools to help you create graphical models that generate code, and support for Visual Basic within the Visual Studio SDK. Released on a quarterly basis, each new version of the Visual Studio SDK delivers improved tools, samples, and documentation to extend your development experience.
Here you'll discover a wealth of resources for learning how to extend Visual Studio for both the beginner and the experienced developer.
Learn how to extend the project system, extend the editor, create custom wizards, and more . . . Automation and IDE Extensibility Project System Debugger Editors User Interface Help Authoring and Integration
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Learn how to use DSL Tools in the Visual Studio SDK to build graphical models to generate code.
Introduction content for learning to create packages and Visual Studio Shell applications using the Visual Studio SDK.
If you create a custom tool that would benefit from having an integrated development environment (IDE), you may consider building on the Visual Studio Shell.
Learn about the broad range of customizations and integration options available with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
| Videos, Articles and BooksAdditional Learning MaterialsVSX CoDe Focus Magazine Microsoft sponsored this special edition of CoDe Magazine on the topic of VSX.
VSX Samples on Code Gallery Reference VSX related code snippets, samples, and deep dive documents.
VSX UE Team Blog VSX User Education team blog with tutorials, walkthroughs, documentation previews, and tips.
LearnVSXNow! Series of tutorial technical articles by MVP Istvan Novak for learning VSX related topics. |