Roaming Extension Manager

The Roaming Extension Manager helps you keep track of all your favorite extensions across all of your development environments. Roaming your extensions keeps track of the extensions you have installed by creating a synchronized list in the cloud.

When you sign into Visual Studio, you can quickly see a list of your extensions by going to Tools, Extensions and Updates, and clicking Roaming Extension Manager. It tracks which extensions you have installed and lets you choose which ones to are added to your Roaming list. With more cool extensions appearing in the gallery every day, this tool makes it quick and easy to set up each dev environment with your favorite extensions.

Using the tool you will notice 3 icon types:

•  Roamed Icon: denotes an extension that is part of your Roaming List, but not installed on this machine. You can install these via the “Download” button.
•  Roamed & Installed Icon: denotes all extensions that are part of your Roaming List and installed in this environment. If you decide you do not want to roam, you can remove these via the “Stop Roaming” button.
•  Installed Icon: denotes all extensions that are installed in this environment, but are not part of your Roaming List. Can be added to roaming list via the “Start Roaming” button.

These icons will show you the current status of your list. You can have any extension in any state, so customize to your heart’s content! Or let us do it for you! Any extension downloaded while you are signed will be added to your list as  Roamed & Installed and will therefore be part of your Roaming list giving you access to it from any machine!