Working with the Extensions tool
The main purpose of extensions in VS is that you can improve your day-to-day productivity with features that may be somewhat specific to particular tasks, such as providing suggestions for best practices in code, performing code cleanup, highlighting messages in the output window, adding visual features in code files, or interacting with SQLite databases. Allowing developers to create new features for VS and share them with the rest of the world is an excellent move on the part of the Microsoft team.
Important note
In this section, I will show you simple extensions to familiarize you with the concept of extensions. In Chapter 12, Using Popular Extensions, you will learn about the most used and preferred extensions by developers and how to work with them.
But how can we access these extensions? The most direct answer is through the Extensions tool, which you can find through the Extensions | Manage Extensions menu, as shown in Figure 11.1:
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