Following the announcement of the Arm64 Visual Studio app in June, Microsoft recently announced the introduction of Arm64 support for Visual Studio extensions as well. This means that developers and users will be able to compile and use extensions in Arm64 Visual Studio applications.
First, you need to update the VSSDK build kit to the latest version via the NuGet package manager, and then you need to add the ProductArchitecture tag specifying arm64 to the VSIX manifest. Finally, you need to set your target CPU architecture: you can select your build target as AnyCPU, or if you want to publish an Arm64-specific extension, you can select Arm64. Microsoft shares more information about this process here.
Microsoft also notes in its official blog post that developers will be able to publish their Arm64 and AMD64 versions of extensions on a single marketplace entry. However, the way you upload and publish extensions remains the same. If you want to upload your Arm64 extensions to an existing extension entry, you will need to follow these steps.
- Go to the Manage Publishers and Extensions page, and click Edit.
- Upload the new payload. You will also need to ensure that the payload has the same extension identifier, version, and a different target platform. 3.
You can now click Upload and Save.
