If you use editor productivity extensions for Visual Studio 2026, there’s good news—they can now load faster! Extension developers with existing MEF-based editor productivity extensions should read this blog to learn about recent changes and how they might be affected. We introduced VisualStudio.Extensibility to simplify the creation of Visual Studio extensions for developers. Previously, handling threads in VSSDK-based extensions […]
Preloading extensions on background thread began in version 18.0, and is now enabled for 50% of developers. Starting 18.4 we will bring it to 100%. Also, this experience is limited to reopening a solution, e.g. from the “Get started” window or “File > Recent Projects and Solutions”. Thank you for your feedback on how much details you expect to see in the blog posts!
Clarification on when this is available/applies: