They are treated more like standalone applications traditionally. Both VSI and MSI format files comprise complete packages for distribution.Īpplication extensions are delivered separately with the core application. The Windows Installer Package (MSI) which was used extensively for applications became the main deployment technology for Visual Studio Packages. Introduced in Visual Studio 2005, the Visual Studio Content Installer (VSI) is used for macros, add-ins, toolbox controls, code snippets, and templates. The Visual Studio extensions deployment technologies also improved over the time. Later Microsoft announced the Visual Studio SDK packages, a newer mechanism that provides deeper Visual Studio IDE integration through lower level API. In Visual Studio 2005, add-in supports a simplified deployment using XML. NET and COM was introduced along with Visual Studio. Over time the add-in mechanism has improved. Add-ins, Visual Studios primary extensibility option, was implemented via COM interfaces.
While some are mere novelties, those for development tools like Eclipse and Visual Studio offer developers significant productivity boosts.Įarlier versions of Visual Studio were built on top of COM technology. They are popular in many applications, including modern web browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox, Microsoft Office, Media Players, Photoshop, Eclipse, Visual Studio and etc. The principal product manager for Visual Studio used his inside insights into the dev team's work to discuss in a conference keynote presentation how AI could revolutionize tasks in five general areas: writing code debugging profiling explaining code and providing a starting point for projects (see the article, " Mads Kristensen's Sneak Peek at Visual Studio's AI Future, To 'Rekindle Our Love of Coding'").Extensions provide additional functions or customization for a core application. It recognizes what code a developer has typed, what error messages are shown, and it's deeply embedded into the IDE."ĭohmke also invited developers to apply for technical preview of other functionality for pull requests and documentation (see the Visual Studio Magazine article, " New, Advanced GPT-4 AI Model Comes to GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI Service)."Ĭoincidentally, the new Visual Studio functionality on tap was previewed by Microsoft's Mads Kristensen at this week's Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas. GitHub Copilot Chat is not just a chat window. "We are bringing a chat interface to the editor that's focused on developer scenarios and natively integrates with VS Code and Visual Studio," said Thomas Dohmke.
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