VS 2010: Extension Manager

Introduction

While Visual Studio has a lot of powerful standard features in supporting developer productivities, Microsoft also allows partners or third-party vendors to develop extension on Visual Studio. Of course you might find some of them are free, however some of them are commercial.

Browsing and finding appropriate extension for Visual Studio could sometimes be a troublesome for developers as they might probably have to search at any resource from internet. One tips that could possible save your time is navigate to visualstudiogallery.com, where most of the extension for visual studio have been registered there. However, it still requires amount of efforts in downloading and installing it separately.

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Extension Manager

Extension Manager allows developer to browse for installed as well as online extension.

To open Extension Manager, you could simple click on Tools Menu and select Extension Manager.

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Immediately, the Extension Manager will show up. To browse for online extension, click on Online Gallery. You could additionally select the detail extension such as controls, templates, and tools.

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Click download button to download and proceed to the installation.

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Having completed the installation, now you are ready to go to use the installed extension.

Hope this helps!

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Published Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:07 AM by Wely
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