Visual Studio Extensibility
Discuss Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX), using the Extension Manager, building VSIX containers for deployment, the Visual Studio SDK, Text Templates (T4), add-ins, macros, and more.
Announcements
Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available!
CarlBrochuMicrosoft EmployeeMonday, March 05, 2012 11:25 PMYou'll find the downloads available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us
You can find the Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK here:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#vs-sdk
You can vote on feedback and ideas (or add your own!) on
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio
If you find any issue, please go to
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio
Where to post feedback, bugs, and questions
Esther FanMicrosoft EmployeeFriday, September 24, 2010 7:38 PM- This Forum - about VSX, MEF, EnvDTE, Text Templates (T4) and other non-modeling extensibility
- For questions about T4 Toolbox, please use http://t4toolbox.codeplex.com/discussions
- Visualization and Modeling Forum - for Visual Studio Ultimate architecture tools - UML, DGML, Architecture Explorer, Layer diagrams
- Visualization and Modeling Extensibility Forum - for domain-specific languages (DSLs) and extending the modeling tools
- Microsoft Connect Visual Studio - for bug reports and suggestions
- The Community Content block at the bottom of any MSDN Library page to add your own tips, corrections or feedback about the content
What do you think of Visual Studio 2010?
Esther FanMicrosoft EmployeeFriday, October 08, 2010 10:10 PMJason Zander wants you to tell MS directly:
"It's been just over 6 months since we launched Visual Studio 2010 in April. I hope you've been busy digging in and taking VS out for a spin. Your feedback was invaluable to us as we were building VS - thank you! It's a great time for us to hear what you think so far. We are especially interested in hearing about your experience with regards to performance, reliability, and quality. The more details you share with us in this survey, the better we can understand your experience and apply what we learn into future versions."
Looking for additional T4 tools?
Esther FanMicrosoft EmployeeFriday, September 24, 2010 8:07 PMhttp://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=t4&ac=8
CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with the world, join others who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback.
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Where is the "Highlighted Reference" format definition?
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