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Add extensions to enhance the IDE

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Add extensions to enhance the IDE

- [Instructor] Visual Studio is already a powerful IDE, but when you add extensions to the mix, you have a development environment that can be tailored to your exact needs. In this video, we'll explore the large catalog of available extensions and see how easy they are to install into Visual Studio. We'll find them here in this Extensions Menu. In this first node, Installed, you see a list, all the currently installed extensions. If I want to disable an extension, I can choose it from this list and click on Disable, restart Visual Studio and then the extension is still available on my local hard drive, but it's not enabled inside Visual Studio. In the Online Section, we have the Marketplace that lists all the available extensions. Right now, they're sorted by the most downloaded extensions, and I can see that I've already installed this GitHub Extension for Visual Studio. I can tell by this green check mark here. If you find one that you like, you click the Download button and then…

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