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Use the Add New File extension

Use the Add New File extension - Visual Studio Tutorial

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Use the Add New File extension

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- [Narrator] You have to love the extensibility of Visual Studio. It's easy to write an extension that plugs into the IDE. There's a giant library of useful extensions that enhance the features of Visual Studio. I'll explore some of my favorite extensions throughout this course. In this movie I'll look at the add new file extension. It's a simple tool that quickly adds files and folders to a project, plus it can create nested folders at the same time. First step is to add the extension. That's in the tools menu here in the extensions and updates. If you're using Visual Studio 2017, the extensions and update menu will be at the top of this tools menu. Now we'll click on the online section, and then go to search Visual Studio gallery. Look for add file, and this is the extension we're looking for. It's called add new file. You can see it has a green check mark. That means I've already installed it on my copy of Visual Studio. If you don't have it installed, you'll click the download…

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