Learn how to find, install, and use the most helpful Visual Studio extensions, and leverage external tools and templates to speed up your development workflow.
Visual Studio Essential Training: 08 Extend and Customize the Visual Studio Environment
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching
- How to use the exercise files
- Explore the extension points in Visual Studio
- Install and manage extensions
- Use the Extensions and Updates dialog
- Install a sample extension
- Install an extension from a VSIX installer
- Spell Checker extension
- Comment Remover
- Add New File extension
- Indent Guide extension
- Open Command Line
- Code Maid extension
- Productivity Powertools extension
- Productivity Power Tools Extension in Visual Studio 2017
- CodeRush and Resharper
- What are external tools?
- Add an external tool
- Pass parameters to external tool
- What are custom templates?
- Where are default templates located?
- Default templates in Visual Studio 2017
- Locate custom templates
- Create item template
- Use the Item template
- Create project template
- Create a custom extension
- Verify the extensibility tools are installed
- Verify the extensibility tools are installed in Visual Studio 2017
- Create the VSIX project
- Add components to VSIX project
- Upgrade VSIX project to Visual Studio 2017
- Set project prerequisites in Visual Studio 2017
- Run the VS Experimental instance
- Debug an extension
- Enhance a command extension
- Deploy and install from local VSIX file
- Deploy an extension to the Extension gallery
- Create an extension with custom UI
- Deploy extension to the marketplace in Visual Studio 2017
- Next steps
Taught by
Walt Ritscher
