#Visual studio code extensions gallery how to

The XML - as mentioned before - based on the atom feed format, which defined in RFC4287.Ītom is an XML-based document format that describes lists of related information known as 'feeds'. This file contains entries in the format of atom feeds and Visual Studio scans those entries to see what in the repository. So how Visual Studio knows, what extensions are in the repository and what updates are available? The repository presented to Visual Studio as an XML file. The reason is that the only 'code' you will see is some XML, that used to define the private repository, and that XML will be maintained manually for now. You will see no attached code to this article. Visual Studio supports different types of installation packages for extensions (VSIX, MSI, VSI), but in this article I'll explain about the one, all your extension projects from the SDK will create for you - VSIX. The private repository became useful when I realised that not only I have to publish the extensions to several (about 12) computers, but I also have to deal with updates. As those pages are based on templates (several of them) and use my home-made engine, creating an extension to publish the templates is the shortest way to success.

I'm working on big project (hundreds of web pages), where my job is to create a tailored framework for those developers, whose job is to create the actual pages. For that reason I use a lot of Visual Studio extension, to incorporate functionality into my main environment.Īnother reason to use extensions, comes from my job. I'm a kind of developer, who do not like to open too much applications/windows while working.

#Visual studio code extensions gallery how to

Manual installation is so old-fashioned, so I will show you how to create, and maintain a private repository. Obviously you have two options - manual installation or private repository. This central place enables to everyone, not only Microsoft, to share tools/controls/templates and more - including updates - with everyone using Visual Studio, by uploading a single file.īut what, if you have some extensions that are so specific, that it's pointless to make it public.

Visual Studio, since version 2010, manages extensions and updates using a central (online) repository.