Download Visual Studio Essential Training: 08 Extend and Customize the Visual Studio Environment

visual S tudio is already a robust IDE. however when you add extensions, third-party tools, and templates to the combo, you’ve got a development environment that may be tailored to your actual desires. in this installment of Visual Studio 2015 necessities, Walt Ritscher shows you the way to seek out, install, and use the foremost useful extensions for Visual Studio. learn the way extensions like Spell Checker, Comment Remover, CodeMaid, and Productivity Power Tools will automatise and speed up the approach you code. Then discover a way to build your own extensions, and share them with alternative developers within the Visual Studio Gallery. Walt conjointly shows a way to use standalone external tools to enhance the Visual Studio work flow, and build custom templates that embody just the files and settings you would like for your project varieties.

Topics include Visual Studio Essential Training: 08 Extend and Customize the Visual Studio Environment:

• Installing extensions
• Using CodeMaid, Productivity Power Tools, and different Visual Studio extensions
• Adding external tools
• Creating custom item and project templates
• Building your own custom extensions
• Creating VSIX installers
• Sharing custom extensions