# Visual Studio Extensibility API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-visual-studio/extensibility-api/  
**Provider:** Microsoft Visual Studio — https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-visual-studio/  
**Documentation:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/

Visual Studio Extensibility API is one of 3 APIs that [Microsoft Visual Studio](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-visual-studio/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Developer Tools, Extensions, and IDE. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Visual Studio Extensibility API enables developers to create extensions that customize and extend Visual Studio IDE functionality. Extensions can add custom tool windows, commands, code analyzers, project templates, debugger visualizers, and language services using the VSIX packaging format and MEF composition model.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-visual-studio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Microsoft Visual Studio APIs (2)

- [Visual Studio Marketplace API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-visual-studio/marketplace-api/)
- [VS Code Extension API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-visual-studio/vscode-extension-api/)

## Tags

Developer Tools, Extensions, IDE

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