Why Should I Extend Visual Studio?
Visual Studio (VS) is the most popular choice of developers working on the Microsoft technology stack. It is an integrated development environment (IDE) and makes the development as well as debugging easy. While there has been rise in the code editors like Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio IDE still holds its ground. The Google trends from the web search over last one year reveals the same as shown in Figure 1.1
Figure 1.1: Interest over last 1 year
Visual Studio 2019 is the latest and greatest version available at the time of writing this post. Like most Microsoft products, the great thing about Visual Studio is that it is highly extensible and customizable. An obvious question comes to mind. Few of the reasons to extend our beloved IDE Visual Studio are listed in my blog on Apress
If you wish to get started with Visual Studio extensibility, you can read my book Visual Studio Extensibility Development published by Apress
Thanks to the team Apress, there is a limited time 20% off on the book for a limited period by using the discount code RishabhVSED20 (valid till 20-Sept-2020). So, what are you waiting for! Hurry up and grab your copy!
Happy extending! Happy coding! Happy learning!
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Daniel Brosseau:
Love your book and working my way through the chapters. In chapter 4, I think I did everything ok, but I get an error message when running the extension: Managed Debugging Assistant ‘InvalidVariant’ : ‘An invalid VARIANT was detected during a conversion from an unmanaged VARIANT to a managed object. Passing invalid VARIANTs to the CLR can cause unexpected exceptions, corruption or data loss.’
Thanks for the book and I like how you explain the subject…
rishabh.rcv@gmail.com:
Thanks Daniel for sharing your feedback and glad you liked it. If you share the exact line and more details, I can try and help you.