Technical requirements

To follow this chapter, you must have installed Visual Studio with the web development workload, as shown in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Visual Studio 2022.

Additionally, to create a theme as an extension, as shown in the Creating a new theme as an extension section, you must install the Visual Studio extension development workload, as shown in Figure 13.1:

Figure 13.1 – Installing the Visual Studio extension development workload

You can install it before you start reading the Creating a new theme as an extension section or while creating the extension, as shown in the same section.

As the chapter focuses on showing the use of extensions in Visual Studio, a code repository is not required.

Let’s see how to work with the extensions tool from Visual Studio.