Visual Studio is a fully extensible development platform and empowers you to extend almost every part:
- Add menu items and toolbars items that activate functionality you build
- Create tool windows that offer entirely new functionality
- Integrate new languages into the IDE
- Offer light bulbs that help developers write better code
- Integrate new project types into Visual Studio
Find more information on the Visual Studio website!
Get started with building extensions for Visual Studio:
- Detailed getting started documentation on Microsoft Docs
- Extension samples on GitHub
- Chat with other extension developers on Gitter
- Channel 9 Videos on extensibility
- Extensibility Tools to make it easier to build extensions
See a list of Community Extensions.