Extend Visual Studio
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Customize your perfect dev environment
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Participate in VSTS’ rich DevOps ecosystem
Integrating with VSTS is a simple and effective way to reach new users by helping them get the most out of their DevOps environment. Get the flexibility to transform the experience within the VSTS environment or integrate with external applications and services.
Reach over
4,000,000
Customers
More than
240
Published VSTS extensions
Over
125,000
Installs so far
How to extend
Extending is easy
Use standard technologies – HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
Use your favorite dev tools
Do it the way you like
Customize or extend the user experience within VSTS
Integrate your applications with VSTS with REST APIs
Share your extension with just your team or the entire VSTS community via the Visual Studio Marketplace


First class Integrated Experiences
VSTS extensions feel like native functionality in the web interface and allow you to create:
Custom tasks for build and release
Hubs that display the results of queries you run frequently
Actions for context menus
Properties to customize the work item form
Widgets to maximize the efficiency of your dashboards
Ready to write your first extension?
Ready to write your first extension?