This team created several foundational pieces, such as Visual Studio MEF and the Visual Studio Text data model platform. In the early 2010s, a small team of engineers was spun up to rethink Visual Studio’s C++/COM/Win32 Editor and Extensibility in terms of new, cutting edge technologies like C#. As a Visual Studio extender, you can ensure your extension’s customers have the most performant, reliable experience possible by avoiding common sources of memory leaks, described within this blog post. Visual Studio extenders make VS even better by augmenting it with specialized tools, new languages, and workflows.
