I want a complete list of AddOns/AddIns available for VS 2005 IDE
Dupe:
Useful Add-Ins or Plug-Ins for native Visual Studio developer
Recommended add-ons/plugins for Microsoft Visual Studio
What Visual Studio add-ins do you use?
Visual Studio add-on gallery?
And many others...there's no definitive list.
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We've already added the Visual Studio workload Visual Studio Extensions Development, but that doesn't seem to be enough. So, are there other workloads that should be installed on a developer's machine, to author VS extensions?
Addendum
I should mention that the users struggling to add Visual Studio Extension Development are using Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition. I would think this would work, but I could be wrong. Can you do Visual Studio development with the Community Edition?
Visual Studio extension development + .NET desktop development workloads should be enough for most VS extensions.
Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition is perfectly fine to do Visual Studio development.
I'm currently involved in a technology upgrade project in my company, and would like to know if VSS6.0 is compatible with latest Visual Studio 2015?
Thank you.
VSS is not included since VS 2010 due to performance issues. According to
Can I Use Visual Source Safe with Visual studio 2013?
and
Visual Studio 2015 Professional and Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
you can choose "Microsoft Visual SourceSafe" plugin from Tools -> Options -> Source Control.
I suggest you to use TFS/CVS/Git/SVN rather than VSS for better version control of your application.
I am going to learn F#. In my lecturer notes, they have simply asked to open VS 2010, open project, select other languages and select F# ! I have VS 2010 express, and everything is separated into different software like Visual C++, Visual C# etc, there is no F# !
In this thread (Is F# 3.0 available on Visual Studio 2010 professional?) I found it is in VS 2012 express so I downloaded it. But, again I can't find F#!
How to make a F# project in VS express? Please help!
EDIT
At least, is this is available in Visual Studio 2010 Professional? Please help!
Download Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web (it is important, you cannot use F# with Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop or other), then install F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. Full description how to do this is on msdn blog
There is countless add-ins on http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ but it seems they are all not for visual studio express (I use visual studio 2010 C# express in my laptop).
But extension manager does provide links to the site so I wonder how can I add-ins for VS express in the site?
Visual Studio Express does not support add-ins.
If you are student, you may be able to get full version (Professional) from either MSDN AA or from DreamSpark. Otherwise you are out of luck (unless you purchase it yourself).
EDIT: You may also try SharpDevelop. It is open-source alternative to Visual Studio. It does not support Visual Studio extensions, but it does support its own extensions. And it may have the features you are looking for.
EDIT Dec 2014: There is now a Visual Studio Community Edition which is free for noncommercial and some commerical uses and does support add-ins!
I have VS 2008 Standard and I'm trying to open a project that is a plug-in for Outlook, the project fails to load showing the message
"C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\Office
Tools\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Office.Office2007.targets was not
found".
The Office Tools directory is missing yet I have installed the Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies and the Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system 3.0.
What am I missing?
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is not included with Visual Studio Standard (Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398242.aspx). When you installed VSTO 3.0, you only installed the run-time components, which only lets you run published VSTO solutions, not design them in Visual Studio.
You will need to upgrade to either Visual Studio Team System or Visual Studio Professional.