Visual Studio Software Development Kit (SDK)

The Visual Studio SDK includes documentation, samples, and code to help you develop products that integrate with Visual Studio.

To download the latest Visual Studio SDK release, go to the Microsoft Download Center.

The Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Center on the MSDN website offers the news and information about Visual Studio extensibility.

In This Section

• Introducing the Visual Studio SDK
  Describes how you can automate and extend Visual Studio, and links to more detailed information.

• Extending Visual Studio Overview
  Contains documentation that shows how to extend Visual Studio.

• Customizing for Testing By Using the Visual Studio SDK
  Shows how you can extend Team Edition for Testers to add new test types.

• Visual Studio SDK Reference
  Contains reference documentation.

Related Sections

• Visual Studio
  Contains the documentation for Visual Studio itself.

• Toolbox Controls Installer
  These guidelines—on the Microsoft Download Center website—show how to install toolbox controls in the Visual Studio Toolbox.