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Just make sure that you select the Visual Studio Extensibility Tools when installing Visual Studio 2015.Īfter that just finish the installation process as normal. If Visual Studio is not yet installed on your PC, you can simply add the Visual Studio SDK to your Visual Studio during the installation. NOTE: The SDK is not included in the Express edition! Installing SDK with a fresh Visual Studio 2015
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With Visual Studio 2015 the Visual Studio SDK is already included in the installer.įor Visual Studio versions before 2015 you will need to download the SDK as a separate update. Learn more about Visual Studio SDK from Microsoft here. The Visual Studio SDK is used to extend Visual Studio with new features.
#Visual studio extensions 2015 install
Installing the SDKīefore you can start creating your own Visual Studio Extensions, you need to first install the Visual Studio SDK.
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This post will explain the basic steps needed to prepare your Visual Studio environment to create your own extensions. With Visual Studio, you can easily unlock additional features with extensions. Visual Studio is a great development environment with ever growing features, and getting better with each version.īut there is always that one niche feature that you need that would help improve your productivity in a project - a menu item to start a custom process, an improved IntelliSense for a custom language, or an editor for a custom file type.