extensions

In this episode, Robert is joined by Peaky Yuter, a Microsoft summer intern who worked on the Link Removed. This very cool extension helps you keep track of your extensions across all of your development environments. It keeps track of the extensions you have installed by creating a synchronized...

I've been blogging about Visual Studio Extensions here for about, well, forever. During that time I've found a few that I can't live without. A few that I always have to find and install again, and again on every new dev machine. Visual Studio 2013 introduced roaming settings (Synchronized...

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Windows 10 Launch, Link Removed [Terry Myerson] Link Removed Link Removed [Dan Rayburn] Link Removed Downloads and tools for Windows 10 Link Removed Link Removed [Soma] Link Removed Opening...

In June I noticed and mentioned that the Link Removed had been updated with a cool GitHub feature, connecting an extension to a repo, "Heat Margin Visual Studio Extension - Taking the Green/Yellow to the next level" Last week the team officially announced this feature and provided a great and...

In this video, we explore Visual Studio 2015 and the Link Removed extension for it! PowerShell Tools is developed by Adam Driscoll (PowerShell MVP), and enables the development of PowerShell projects inside Visual Studio. You automatically get all of the benefits of the Visual Studio...

Since Build I've been accumulating Windows 10 IoT Raspberry Pi stories, thinking I'd release related posts over a couple months, dibbling them out. But the stories just kept coming in, piling up. If I tried to post these one at a time every Friday, I'd be posting nothing else for the year! Well...

Instead of extending Visual Studio, today I'm going to highlight a new extensibility target, extending Visual Studio Online (VSO). Link Removed, Visual Studio ALM Microsoft MVP has written up a great Hello VSO World tutorial, taking you from New Project through deployment of your new VSO...

When I upgrade to Win 10, if I do, I am informed I will lose WMC but will have a dvd app from Windows. Is this app one that will play dvds like the WMVC did? I ask because I have various extensions with different discs and WMC played them all. I tried VLC but found it confusing. I guess my point...

Today we revisit the Visual Studio 2015 Extensibility story that was started covering in The Future of Visual Studio Extensions is Bright (and easier :), talking about more of the extension goodness that's available and then about the new Common Project System. First Heather Brown, Principal...

Can anybody help me? I am running Windows 8.1 on an Acer Aspire E15. I downloaded RealPlayer (now called RealTimes) from the Real website so that I can use their RealDownloader to download videos from various websites, including TouTube. It's supposed to work on all browsers - I use Firefox...

We've got two things for you today... First, I wanted to highlight an outstanding post by Utkarsh Shigihalli. Last week I highlighted and Visual Studio extension by Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora, Is Visual Studio Online Online? VSO Status Indicator Extension. Since then Utkarsh released...

So i got back home from the beach from a school field trip this weekend and my nephew was home all day i let him use my computer and he tried downloading a game on my computer illegally but instead he got a bunch of adware and who knows what else this computer might hold now. There's adware in...

Today's Visual Studio 2013 & 2015 extension is from two guys who if you've been in the VS ALM space for a bit, you'll have heard of a number of times, Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora. You've all started using Link Removed, right? Think "TFS in the Cloud" that you can use for free (for up to...

With Microsoft Edge, we want to fundamentally improve security over existing browsers and enable users to confidently experience the web from Windows. We have designed Microsoft Edge to defend users from increasingly sophisticated and prevalent attacks. This post covers some of the advanced...

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server 2015 RC enables integration between Team Foundation Server and Project Server. These extensions are similar to the SharePoint Extensions for Team Foundation Server 2013 and need to be installed on all of the front end servers in...

The Visual Studio 2015 RC SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and reference assemblies that are required to build extensions for Visual Studio 2015 RC. Link Removed

The Modeling SDK for Visual Studio 2015 RC contains Domain Specific Languages (DSL Tools) and the Architecture Tools SDK for Visual Studio 2015 RC. This SDK provides tools and templates for building Domain Specific Language designers and extending UML. You can build your own graphical or...

Kinect and Unity, Peanut Butter and Chocolate (or you'd think so, given how often we cover them here... ;). Now Link Removed has put together something just a yummy with his Unity 5 and Kinect 2 tutorial... Unity 5 and Kinect 2 Integration Link Removed Until just this month one of the best...

Mads Kristensen is back, today with a VS Extension that will help VS Extension builders build Extensions. That is so meta I had to highlight, even through it's currently at v0.2 (might be at 0.3, 0.4 by the time you read this... :) Speaking of Mads, are are few other recent times we've...

I cheating a little... Yesterday I highlighting this project in the Kinect Gallery, but since this news ties in so well with last week's blog post, I'm going to highlight here too. And can you really have enough Small Basic and Kinect news? :) Kinect for Small Basic System Requirements 1...