I'm working on a VS Extension that needs to be aware of which class member the text-cursor is currently located in (methods, properties, etc). It also needs an awareness of the parents (e.g. class,...

I have created a Visual Studio Extension (VSIX) that makes changes to our Application's code using Roslyn. The VSIX solution includes the NUGET package Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Analyzers. As an asi...

I have been following this post about how to build a VSIX project that will add some custom MVC project types: http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/custom-mvc-templates I also want to include s...

I have an existing Single-File Generator (housed in a C# Class Library). How do you add the VSIX project-level features to this project? The end goal is to compile my class library project and get ...

I'm facing an error while trying to install/update any visual studio extension, I'm running Visual studio 2015 enterprise edition on Windows 7. 12/12/2016 11:35:11 AM - Microsoft VSIX Installer ...

I have a VISX package that I compile using VS 2017. The package applies to VS 2015 & 2017 (it happily installs and runs in a production environment on both version of VS). When I debug the pr...

I'm creating a VS extension, and I want to add a file to solution and set some properties. One of them is Copy to output directory, but I cannot find a way of setting it. Setting Build action works...

I'm working on a Visual Studio extension project, providing language service for Lua(this feature is already done). Now I'm going to add a project type for Lua. Now there will be two VsPackage clas...

I am looking for a way to Reload a project OR all projects inside the Solution, with Target node , which is in pre-build events node of .csproj file <Project> ... <Target Name="BeforeBu...

I have defined a dynamic combo for a toolbar in a VSIX package for Visual Studio 2015 using this setting in the VSCT file: <Combo guid="cmdExplorerToolbarSearchGUID" id="cmdExplorerToolbarSear...

When trying to add references to a VSIX, it normally pulls it from the references in the .csproj. However, if the references are not in the .csproj, because they now are in a project.json file, the...

I'm using a Visual Studio Private Gallery to publish a VSIX internal to my company. My VSIX shows up in the "Online" section of "Extensions and Updates" in Visual Studio 2012 and I can install it f...

What is best way to obtain Roslyn's SyntaxTree from EnvDTE.ProjectItem? I found some method for the other way (Roslyn's Document into ProjectItem). I got VSIX command called from opened document a...

I'm using VSIX Manifest Designer under VS2013. I've added Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro product identifier and [10.0,13.0) version range to install targets. Despite that fact, I still don't see my VS2...

I am maintaining a company internal Visual Studio extension that is packaged and deployed as VSIX container. This extension currently targets VS 2010. It uses several VS API DLLs and references the...

We are working on an VS extension that requires a list of Visual Studio commands like the one in this screen shot: Example: Action.Add Action.Add.NETFrameworkLaunchCondition Action.AddAction ....

I'm interested in getting a Project or ProjectItem (as examples, not limited to those two) for the current selection where only a single item is selected. Most people seem to be using IVsMonitorSe...

I am working on Portable Class Library(PCL) and trying to achieve MEF in that. I used System.Composition from Nuget. When i build and package for vsix (Extension for Visual Studio) it doesn't packa...

We are using the classes in the Microsoft.VisualStudio.XmlEditor namespace (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.xmleditor.aspx) to modify an xml document in an Visual St...

How can I get the color scheme programmatically using a VSPackage in C#? I know that I can use IVsUIShell5.GetThemedColor for VS2011, but I don't know how to get it from VS2005, VS2008 or VS2010.

I'm developing a Visual Studio extension in VS2013 but I can get it to load in the experimental instance. I can install it manually in my current instance (from the vsix file) and it works fine bu...

I'm attempting to build a visual studio extension. My project is created from the "VSIX Project" template. According to the documentation there should be a template for a custom editor but I am no...

I'm creating a custom test runner for my project. So I've created a test vsix project which can be registered in Visual Studio. I also knows that I load the extension through F5, then the experime...

I wrote an Visual Studio 2013 extension that observes Windows.Forms designer windows. When a developer is changing controls in the designer window, the extension tries to verify that the result is ...

Does somebody know how we can use the "Managed Compatibility Mode" debugger, to attach to a process from inside a VSIX package code with VS2015? We currently use the following code, to find the "Ma...