![]() ![]() In earlier versions of VS, you depended on project templates and “merge projects” to get more functionality. In Visual Studio 2015, it is exceptionally easy to add new functionality to your extension. Get started today by directly downloading the Visual Studio Extensibility Tools or checkout the Visual Studio 2015 RC Downloads page. Now let’s look at all the new ways in which you can make Visual Studio your own! Item templates: the convenient way to create basic extensions! Starting with Visual Studio 2013 Community, and continuing with Visual Studio 2015 Community, you can create and use Extensions in a free version of our IDE. So with Visual Studio 2015, we set out on the long road of making it easier to develop extensions, giving you the functionality you need to make great integrated tools, frameworks, and languages, and connecting you with other extension authors in our ecosystem. ![]() In addition, it is hard to know where to start! We had to make it simpler. It is a win-win: make an extension and you get a product or tailored experience for your specific scenario, and we – Microsoft – see Visual Studio’s potential audience get a little bit bigger and a little bit happier.Īfter 7 years of growing the Visual Studio Platform, it has become rather bulky and packed with features. When we decided to expand Visual Studio 2015 in the hopes of making it *the* premier platform for cross-platform development, we acknowledged that the ability for our customers to extend, customize, and generally make it their own was absolutely, critically important.
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