Building, Testing and Debugging the Sources

Branches

master is our primary development branch (the only branch currently). This is where you should work and submit pull requests.

Required Software

1. Visual Studio 2015 with Update 1. Update 1 is recommended, but RTM should be fine for now.
2. Visual Studio 2015 Extensibility Tools. If you already installed Visual Studio, choose "Modify" from the Programs and Features control panel, and check "Visual Studio Extensibility".

Getting the Sources

1. Clone https://github.com/Microsoft/VS-PPT.git
2. Open ProPowerTools.Open.sln

Note: currently we don't support developing Productivity Power Tools when you have official Productivity Power Tools build installed, so please uninstall it first

Running Tests

Unit tests can be run directly from Visual Studio. Just "Test/Run/All Tests".

Trying Your Changes in Visual Studio

As usual, when you build the solution the extensions are being deployed into the Experimental instance of Visual Studio. So to try out or debug your changes just hit F5.

Contributing

Please see Contributing Code for details on contributing changes back to the code.