Visual Studio SDK

Being a developer and using Visual Studio as your default platform in order to create and manage software development projects might be a simple task.

It provides you with a practical collection of tools and services that help you to create various apps. Additionally, Visual Studio enables you to connect your teams and projects all together and work at the same project, irrespective of the development tool that each one uses.

However, there are several developers who need to extend the Visual Studio functionality and here is where Visual Studio SDK comes in handy.

It comprises a set of tools, samples, wizards and designers that help you to create new features and add them to your Visual Studio program. In this manner, you are able to customize the current debugger or simply create a new own, add commands, windows and other features to the IDE.

Since various Visual Studio components are software modules entitled VSPackages, you can easily create your own extensions and customize each option the way you want, no matter the development utility you choose to work with.

The Tools menu enables you to connect to a specific database or server, manage all the available library packages, as well as import or export predefined settings.

In case you want to write an extension to Visual Studio you can either write an add-in or wizard in order to automate programming tasks, or simply customize Visual Studio commands and properties.

Because there are some components used by Visual Studio extensions such as templates, shell commands, menus, language services and toolbars, advanced programming skills are required.

To wrap it up, Visual Studio SDK proves to be a steady and reliable solution especially designed for advanced developers who need to build Visual Studio extensions, menus, commands, tools, isolated shell projects and editors.