Title says it all: How can one 'extract' a .vsix file? I was following a tutorial and states this as step, but I didn't understand it and it wasn't easily googleable.

I'm working on creating a Visual Studio 2017 custom Check-In Policy extension. My current solution is structured as follows: Note: I am taking advantage of the new NuGet PackageReference approac...

I am developing a Visual Studio package and I have written some code that will make a file in Solution Explorer dependant upon another file. What this means is that it gives them the same relation...

I use the IVsObjectList2.GetCategoryField2 method to retrieve different information of a type. Now I wonder how I can retrieve C# specific information like abstract or internal modifier of a type?...

I wrote an extension for Visual Studio 2013. Because of bloody ComboBox bug, I had to include System.Windows.Interactivity to my project. To add more details: <Project> uses additional solu...

There is a vsix package developed by another developer, which needs some modifications. I tried to open the vsix file in VS code itself(latest version), but it is opening the binaries. Would it be...

I have an extension to VS that should use Gmail api to send mails to certain users in my company. During development I step into a common issue with System.Net.Http.Primitives version that is some...

I can disable automatic extension update for a particular extension via the Extensions and Updates manager in Visual Studio. But what should I do when I want to disable automatic updates for extens...

Microsoft changed VSIX to asynchronous with VS2019 and with that came grief. I see many warnings that say: Warning VSTHRD010 Accessing "Project" should only be done on the main thread. Call Mic...

From a visual studio package (VSIX) how do I detect a solution or project build?

After installing the latest Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, the EF power tools reverse code engineer option fails with the following error message. One or more errors occurred while processing templa...

Where are custom extensions installed in Visual Studio? I know you could get path though ExtensionManager.GetInstalledExtensions(). However, it seems none of the paths found corresponds to my exten...

I'm building a syntax highlighting extension for the Properties language in Visual Studio and already built the classifier/tagger. I'm stuck however at setting/choosing the right colors for the dif...

I create top level menu with name "CustomMenu" from extension project and also create another top level menu with same name from another extension project.After I install both extension menu shows ...

I've been following MSDN's Hello World guide to developing Visual Studio extensions (this article specifically deals with creating one as a Visual Studio toolbar command). I am trying to list all ...

I defined a toolbar for a tool window by following this walk-through description. Adding new buttons to the toolbar, and connecting them to code within my package, is no problem and works fine (S...

I have a Visual Studio 2017 item template extension that is currently working with ASP.NET projects. It has the following .vstemplate: <VSTemplate Version="3.0.0" Type="Item" xmlns="http://sche...

I'm trying to create a Visual Studio 2017 extension, just for fun and to learn how VS extensibility works. My extension must be usable from the Solution Explorer tab as a context menu button, but...

Visual Studio 2017 seems to have changed a lot of things in the extensibility area https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/breaking-changes-2017 The previous recommendations r...

Hi I am having a problem, with a custom build task inside of a Visual Studio Extension. I need to identify projects of my custom project type. I can do this fine if they are on the root of the solu...

I've both VS 2012 and VS 2013 installed on my computer. The problem is that when I download an VSIX-File and open it with the Visual Studio version selector the file gets opened by VS but instead o...

Visual Studio uses a private registry hive instead of "polluting" the system registry - typically found somewhere like this: C:\Users\Abx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_4b0ba1c0\private...

I've configured my VSIX-Project to run devenv.exe when I press F5. This opens the start page from Visual Studio. In order to test my extension I have to manually open a specific solution. I tried ...

I have a standard VSIX project taking a project dependency on a class library project in the same solution. Everything was building just fine until I switched the class library to the new VS2017RC ...

I have a new-style csproj project file that overrides IntermediateOutputPath. It looks like this: <PropertyGroup> <TargetFramework>netstandard1.6</TargetFramework> <Intermed...