dev@vstudio

Visual Studio

Extensions

• Multiple Solution Explorer Tools
  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=misaz.multiplesolutionexplorertools
  • https://www.davidyardy.com/blog/multiple-solution-explorer-tools–visual-studio-extension/

Extensibility

Projects and Items Templates

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-locate-and-organize-project-and-item-templates?view=vs-2017
• VS 2019 Tags: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/build-visual-studio-templates-with-tags-for-efficient-user-search-and-grouping/

VSIX

• Update: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/how-to-update-a-visual-studio-extension?view=vs-2017

• Deploying vstemplate via vsix:

  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/getting-started-with-the-vsix-project-template?view=vs-2017
  • https://www.dotnetcurry.com/visualstudio/1243/create-project-template-visual-studio-2013-2015
  • Using TemplateBuilder: https://blogs.endjin.com/2014/07/a-step-by-step-guide-to-developing-visual-studio-item-templates-using-sidewaffle/
  • Example VSIX full of templates: https://github.com/LigerShark/side-waffle

• Misc

  • Create solutions and projects from C#: * Nager.TemplateBuilder (https://github.com/tinohager/Nager.TemplateBuilder)
  • Experimental instance settings: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio

Distributing VSIX

• Simple local Gallery (Windows Service via Topshelf):
  • https://blog.sverrirs.com/2017/05/vs-selfhosted-extension-gallery.html
  • https://github.com/sverrirs/vsgallery
• Atom Generator: https://github.com/garrettpauls/VSGallery.AtomGenerator