Write Your Own Tools for Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a fully extensibility development platform. In addition to all of the powerful tools that it provides, you can also use tools written by the community as well as create your own tools. Visual Studio Extensions empower you to extend almost every part of Visual Studio:

• Add menu items and toolbars items that activate functionality you build
• Create tool windows that offer entirely new functionality
• Provide IntelliSense for emerging programming languages
• Offer light bulbs that help developers write better code
• Integrate new project types into Visual Studio

Visual Studio Gallery

Once you've built your extension, share it! The Visual Studio Gallery makes your extensions available to thousands of Visual Studio users. Contribute to the Visual Studio community and show off your dev skills.

Contribute

There are many ways to contribute to Extensibility

• Submit bugs through Connect
• Write your own extensions and share them on GitHub
• Engage with other Visual Studio Extension users and developers on StackOverflow with the tag Visual-Studio-Extensions.
• Join the free Visual Studio Partner Program

Visual Studio Extensibility Resources

Check out the VS Extensibility Dev Center, the extensibility samples, and the extensibility documentation to learn more about building extensions.

Community Extensions

Here you can see other extensions that the Visual Studio Community has developed

• Web Essentials 2015
• SideWaffle
• MultiEdit
• Ref12
• Extensibility Tools
• Remove Trailing Whitespace
• React Snippet Pack
• Add Any File to a Project
• Visual Studio Minecraft
• PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio
• Entity Framework Reverse POCO Generator
• Visual F# Power Tools
• SQL Server Compact and SQLite Toolbox
• GitHub Issue Management
• T4 Toolbox
• BlackBerry Native Development Plugin
• Glyphfriend
• VsVim
• Visual Studio Editor Utilities
• Easy Motion
• Save All the Tabs