Reviewing VS Marketplace

VS Marketplace is the online place to find and install extensions for VS 2022. In this marketplace, you can also find extensions for other products of the VS family, such as VS Code and Azure DevOps. You can access the marketplace via https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vs.

Once you enter the portal, you will have a very different user interface to the Extensions tool, but the core operation is the same. In the main portal, you will be able to see the different extensions sorted by Featured, Trending, Most Popular, and Highest Rated.

To test the marketplace, let’s search for the term icons and see the list of results. Although the list currently yields around 60 results, not all extensions are compatible with the most modern version of VS. Therefore, it is recommended to apply the filter for Visual Studio 2022, as shown in Figure 11.7:

Figure 11.7 – Filtering VS versions in the marketplace

Once the filter has...