[SOLVED] Where are custom extensions installed in Visual Studio?

Where are custom extensions installed in Visual Studio?

Where are custom extensions installed in Visual Studio? I know you could get path though ExtensionManager.GetInstalledExtensions(). However, it seems none of the paths found corresponds to my extension.

Solution

Extensions (if deployed as VSIX) will be installed to the user´s profile; each extension will be installed into a folder with a random name, for instance:

%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Extensions\s5lxc0ne.1kp

If you want to obtain the package installation path at runtime, you can obtain that information from the assembly that defines the Package class.

static string GetAssemblyLocalPathFrom(Type type)
{
    string codebase = type.Assembly.CodeBase;
    var uri = new Uri(codebase, UriKind.Absolute);
    return uri.LocalPath;
}

...

string installationPath = GetAssemblyLocalPathFrom(typeof(MyPackage));