Package Load Explorer

Requires Visual Studio 2017.6 or newer

This extension makes it easy to diagnose how packages are being loaded in Visual Studio. Both build-in as well as packages comming from external extensions are supported.

The Package Load Explorer window

Display it by going to View -> Other Windows -> Package Load Explroer.

Shows information about how the VS packages was loaded in the IDE.

The columns shown are:

• PackageGuid
• PackageName
• ModuleName
• AutoLoadContextGuid
• AutoLoadContextName
• IsRuleBasedUIContext
• UIContextTerms
• IsAsyncPackage
• IsAsyncForUIContext