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Is it possible to install VS Code extensions in Visual Studio or vice versa?


I have Visual Studio installed, but not Visual Studio Code.

There are extensions available in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace, but not available in the Visual Studio Marketplace, that I would nonetheless love to use in Visual Studio.

Is this possible? Or are the two offerings just fundamentally different? Hacky solutions welcome.

Example: I want Rainbow-CSV. Double-clicking the VSIX just tells me to try it in VS Code:

Failed installation dialog box

Do people often run VS and VS Code side by side? There are far more open source offerings for VS Code versus VS.


Solution

  • I think no. VS Code and Visual Studio are not the same, and that includes the ways their extensions work not being the same-

    Though that's not to say that some extensions made for both editors for similar purposes might not use the same underlying software components, as I think is the case with cpptools.