https://github.com/microsoft/vsixbootstrapper

An installer that can be chained with other packages to locate the latest VSIXInstaller.exe to use for installing VSIX extensions.
https://github.com/microsoft/vsixbootstrapper

deployment installer visual-studio vsix vsix-extensions

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An installer that can be chained with other packages to locate the latest VSIXInstaller.exe to use for installing VSIX extensions.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/microsoft/vsixbootstrapper
• Owner: microsoft
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-02-02T21:59:56.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: develop
• Last Pushed: 2025-06-10T22:02:54.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-13T00:13:08.722Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: deployment, installer, visual-studio, vsix, vsix-extensions
• Language: C++
• Size: 101 KB
• Stars: 27
• Watchers: 15
• Forks: 17
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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VSIX Installer Bootstrapper

===========================

![build status: master](https://devdiv.visualstudio.com/DevDiv/_apis/build/status/Setup/Setup-VSIXBootstrapper-CI?branchName=master&label=master)

[![build status: develop](https://dev.azure.com/azure-public/vssetup/_apis/build/status/Microsoft.vsixbootstrapper?branchName=develop&label=develop)](https://dev.azure.com/azure-public/vssetup/_build/latest?definitionId=19?branchName=develop)

[![github release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/Microsoft/vsixbootstrapper.svg?logo=github)](https://github.com/Microsoft/vsixbootstrapper/releases/latest)

[![github releases: all](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/Microsoft/vsixbootstrapper/total.svg?logo=github&label=github)](https://github.com/Microsoft/vsixbootstrapper/releases)

[![nuget: all](https://img.shields.io/nuget/dt/vsixbootstrapper.svg?label=nuget)](https://nuget.org/packages/vsixbootstrapper)

One of the great new features of Visual Studio 2017 is an initial smaller and fast install. To compliment a smaller - but powerful - initial feature set, installing additional workloads and components on-demand is supported for both end users and package developers.

Package developers can install their VSIX extensions for Visual Studio using this bootstrapper to find the latest version of _VSIXInstaller.exe_ and install their extension(s). This may be preferable for extensions that support Visual Studio 2017 or newer than installing extensions in Windows Installer _.msi_ packages, since MSIs cannot run concurrently in separate processes.

Other deployments may also benefit since they no longer have to find where _VSIXInstaller.exe_ is installed. The command line passed to _VSIXBootstrapper.exe_ is passed through to _VSIXInstaller.exe_.

See our [samples](https://github.com/Microsoft/vsixbootstrapper/wiki/Samples) for ideas how to use _VSIXBootstrapper.exe_.

## Feedback

To file issues or suggestions, please use the [Issues][] page for this project on GitHub.

## License

This project is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE.txt).

## Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the [Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/). For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/faq/) or contact [opencode@microsoft.com](mailto:opencode@microsoft.com) with any additional questions or comments.

  [issues]: https://github.com/Microsoft/vsixbootstrapper/issues

  [wix]: http://wixtoolset.org