Visual Studio As An Extensible Platform
When running the Visual Studio IDE the devenv.exe file is started. However, the IDE is not just a simple monolithic .exe file or an executable divided into a few .dll files. It is a shell that provides a graphical environment to host functional units, called packages. What is perceived by users of Visual Studio is a cooperation of the shell and hosted packages. The core functions of the IDE are also implemented in packages including the C# or VB project types, testing features and many more. Majority of third-party extensions loaded into Visual Studio are also implemented in packages. After installing Visual Studio, about a hundred packages are installed with the shell, depending on the version of VS.
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