Gil Fink 
VS2010 Extension Manager
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One of the great 
features
in VS2010 is the extension manager.
In last DevAcademy4
conference I talked about it a little in my session
and showed an extension that I use. Lets see what is it
all about.
Using The Extension Manager
The
extension manager in VS2010 is a
manager that help to manage and discover extensions to VS2010.
In order to use it we only need to go to the Tools
menu and choose to use the Extension Manager
menu item. The following figure shows how to start the extension
manager: 
After opening the
manager we get to the following menu: 
As
you can see you can see all the installed extensions, to disable them or
uninstall them. Also You can discover extensions that exists in
the online extensions gallery: 
The last thing you
can do is to look for extensions updates if they exists: 
As you can see there
are no available updates for the extensions I use.
Summary
Using the extension manager is very simple and intuitive. It enables great way to extend VS2010 as we wish or need. Of course if you like, you can create your own extension but this is a story for another post.
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