


Next, you need to decide whether to add features to an existing open source extension or create a brand new extension. To use or develop extensions, you need Visual Studio Professional or higher (Express Edition won’t work).įirst, download and install the Visual Studio SDK (for VS2012, see here this adds project types for Visual Studio extensions and is required in order to open or create any extension. In this blog post, I will explain how to start writing Visual Studio extensions, so you can make the IDE work the way you want it to.

In addition to being an excellent development environment, Visual Studio also has a powerful extensibility system. Extending Visual Studio 2013, Part 1: Getting Started Posted on Friday, October 18, 2013
