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Visual Studio Extensibility Development

Extending Visual Studio IDE for Productivity, Quality, Tooling, and Analysis

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Authors:
  1. Rishabh Verma

    1. Hyderabad, India

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  • Consists of tips and tricks for VS and its extensibility
  • Discusses extensions for C#, VB, JS, and CSS developers
  • Contains case studies for deployment and customization of extensions in VS

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Basics Primer

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    Pages 1-44

  3. Getting Started

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    Pages 45-80

  4. Extending Visual Studio

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    Pages 81-120

  5. Developing Your First Extensions

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    Pages 121-189

  6. Developing Real-World Extensions

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    Pages 191-231

  7. Developing Real-World Extensions for Visual Studio Editor

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    Pages 233-297

  8. Snippets, Templates, and More …

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    Pages 299-332

  9. Continuous Integration and Hosting

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    Pages 333-374

  10. Tips and Tricks

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    Pages 375-412

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 413-419
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About this book

Learn the extensibility model of Visual Studio to enhance the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). This book will cover every aspect, starting from developing an extension to publishing it and making it available to the end user. 

The book begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of Visual Studio including data structures and design patterns and moves forward with the fundamentals of the VS extensibility model. Here you will learn how to work on Roslyn - the .NET compiler platform - and load extensions in VS. Next, you will go through the extensibility model and see how various extensions, such as menus, commands, and tool windows, can be plugged into VS. Moving forward, you’ll cover developing VS extensions and configuring them, along with demonstrations on customizing extension by developing option pages. Further, you will learn to create  custom code snippets and use a debugger visualizer. Next, you will go through creation ofproject and item templates including deployment of VS extensions using continuous integration (CI). Finally, you will learn tips and tricks for Visual Studio and its extensibility and integration with Azure DevOps. 

After reading Visual Studio Extensibility Development you will be able to develop, deploy, and customize extensions in Visual Studio IDE. 

What You Will Learn

  • Discover the Visual Studio extensibility and automation model
  • Code Visual Studio extensions from scratch
  • Customize extensions by developing a tools option page for them
  • Create project templates, item templates, and code snippets.
  • Work with code generation using T4 templates
  • Code analysis and refactoring using Roslyn analyzers
  • Create and deploy a private extension gallery and upload the extensions
  • Upload a VS extension using CI
  • Ship your extension to Visual Studio Marketplace
Who This Book Is For


Developers in Visual Studio IDE covering C#, Visual Basic (VB), JavaScript, and CSS.






Authors and Affiliations

  • Hyderabad, India

    Rishabh Verma

About the author

Rishabh Verma is a Microsoft certified professional and works at Microsoft as a senior development consultant, helping the customers to design, develop, and deploy enterprise-level applications. An electronic engineer by education, he has 12+ years of hardcore development experience on the .NET technology stack. He is passionate about creating tools, Visual Studio extensions, and utilities to increase developer productivity. His interests are .NET Compiler Platform (Roslyn), Visual Studio extensibility, code generation and .NET Core. He is a member of .NET foundation (https://www.dotnetfoundation.org). He occasionally blogs at https://rishabhverma.net/. He has authored books on .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Core 3.1 prior to this title.His twitter id is @VermaRishabh and his linkedIn page is https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhverma/


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