Recently, I've updated over 30 of my extensions to support Visual Studio 2019 (16.0). To make sure they work, I got my hands on a very early internal build of VS 2019 to test with (working on the Visual Studio team has its benefits). This upgrade process is one of the easiest I've ever experienced. I wanted to share my steps with you to show just how easy it is so you'll know what to do once Visual Studio 2019 is released. Updates to .vsixmanifest We need to make a couple of updates to the .vsixmanifest file. First, we must update the supported VS version range. Here's a version that support every major and minor versions of Visual Studio 14.0 (2015) and 15.0 (2017) all the way up to but not including version 16.0. Simply change the upper bound of the version range from 16.0 to 17.0, like so: Next, update the version ranges in the elements. Here's what it looked like before: We must update the version ranges to have the same upper bound as before, but in this case we can make the upper bound open ended, like so: This means that the Prerequisite needs version 15.


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