Microsoft is looking to help developers extend Visual Studio with the release of Project System Extensibility Preview.

Developers can define new project types, write extensions to customize the user experience, or add features with little coding, Andrew Arnott, principal engineer for Visual Studio, said in a blog post this week. “Gone are the days where you have to create or maintain an entire project system — usually a fork based on MPFproj — often containing well over 100K lines of code. Instead, you’ll be building on the CPS (Common Project System) that ships with Visual Studio and is already used by C++, JavaScript, and ASP.Net 5.” 

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