After a bit of playing around I was able to figure out a solution to my problem: I can see that an extension is added to the experimental instance of Visual Studio when you successfully build the project (I’ve found no other way of installing the extension (VS2013)). If you try to build the project … Read more
I faced the same issue. Just use the VSIXInstaller to install the extension. You can open “Developer Command Prompt for VS2012” tool in Start -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 -> Visual Studio Tools. On the console, run the below command: VSIXInstaller <path to vsix file>
I’m not sure I’m understanding your question correctly, but if you’re trying to install a Project Template via a VSIX and you want the project template to include all it’s nuget packages when you use it you could do something like this. Edit your Project Template’s xproj file and add the following lines: <ItemGroup> <None … Read more
Extensions (if deployed as VSIX) will be installed to the user´s profile; each extension will be installed into a folder with a random name, for instance: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Extensions\s5lxc0ne.1kp If you want to obtain the package installation path at runtime, you can obtain that information from the assembly that defines the Package class. static string GetAssemblyLocalPathFrom(Type type) … Read more
In the menu, go to: Visual Studio 2017: Tools > Extensions And Updates Visual Studio 2019: Extensions > Manage Extensions A new window will pop up, then in the panel to the left, click the arrow besides Installed to bring it down and select the menu item All. All you have to do now is … Read more
Visual Studio Extensions can be debugged like any other application. You just need to setup the debug experience to launch devenv with the loaded extension. Try the following Right click on the project and select Properties Go to the Debug Tab Click on the radio button for Start External Program. Point it to the devenv.exe … Read more