Visual Studio Toolbox: Building High Performance Extensions Parts 1 and 2

In this two part series, I am joined by Omer Raviv, co-creator of OzCode, a Visual Studio extension that makes debugging much easier. Omer educates us on how to build high performance extensions.

Part 1 can be found here

Resources:

• The slides for the presentation
• OzCode open-source sample for writing a Visual Studio Extension Integration Test
• The sample is built on top of BDDfy, Microsoft\VSTestHost, and Shouldly
• OzCode.VisualStudioExtensionAnalyzers: A set of Roslyn analyzers that help pinpoint problematic code in Visual Studio extensions

Part 2 can be found here

Resources:

• The slides for the presentation
• OzCode VSExplorationTests: infrastructure for automatically downloading open-source C# projects off GitHub and testing your VS extension against them
• How to: Use AsyncPackage to Load VSPackages in the Background