

If you upload your VSIX to the Visual Studio Gallery, your customer can install it right in Visual Studio, in the new Extension Manager: It’s created as part of a VSIX project build in Visual Studio, and you can view its contents with any zip file utility.

The information it contains will be of most interest to readers who develop Visual Studio extensions, but I encourage users who download and install those extensions to read it as well.Ī VSIX file conforms to the ECMA Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) standard. This post is about a new way to install extensions to Visual Studio, introduced in VS 2010, called the VSIX file.
