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Since Visual Studio 2012, the traditional setup project type has been removed from Visual Studio (available only as an extension since Visual Studio 2013). WiX is a recommended alternative. Functions. WiX is a toolset designed to build Windows Installer (.msi) packages using the command line. It comes with the following tools:
Visual Studio Tools for Office is a SDK and an add-in for Visual Studio that includes tools for developing for the Microsoft Office suite. Previously (for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005) it was a separate SKU that supported only Visual C# and Visual Basic languages or was included in the Team Suite.
Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, [9] is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers. [10] [11] Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded version control with Git.
Designbox - Adds a toolbox that lets you associate initial property values with controls. Koders – Adds a search plug-in to search the Koders database. Reflector - a code browsing utility. Dotfuscator – Provides tools to help prevent reverse engineering. VSdocman - Visual Studio code commenter (XML doc comments) and API documentation generator.
Windows Installer ( msiexec.exe, previously known as Microsoft Installer, [3] codename Darwin) [4] [5] is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software. The installation information, and optionally the files themselves, are packaged in ...
MSBuild is a build tool that helps automate the process of creating a software product, including compiling the source code, packaging, testing, deployment and creating documentations. With MSBuild, it is possible to build Visual Studio projects and solutions without the Visual Studio IDE installed. MSBuild is free and open-source. [5]
Microsoft Blend. Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. It is an interactive, WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML -based ...
Visual Studio Tools for Office. Visual Studio Tools for Office ( VSTO) is a set of development tools available in the form of a Visual Studio add-in (project templates) and a runtime that allows Microsoft Office 2003 and later versions of Office applications to host the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) to expose their functionality ...