Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process. Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual ...

Another dozen of the latest tools and extensions available for Visual Studio 2015 and the recently released Visual Studio 2017. Last time, we looked at a dozen extensions, and we continue with build, ...

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I can't think of a work-related piece of software that has the number and breadth of community-sourced tools and extensions we enjoy for Visual Studio. It's astonishing every time I sit down to write ...

Microsoft is finally releasing a 64-bit version of Visual Studio, but you have to rebuild your VSIX extensions for the new IDE. Visual Studio has been at the heart of Microsoft’s developer platform ...

NEW YORK—Developers can now debug apps running on Linux servers or IoT devices from the comfort of Visual Studio. Microsoft today released a preview of a Visual Studio extension that adds remote ...