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title: "Automating your Visual Studio extension builds with GitHub Actions"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/automating-your-visual-studio-extension-builds-with-github-actions-rfxqqqazu
source_url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/automating-your-visual-studio-extension-builds-with-github-actions
type: article
source: "Visual Studio Blog"
published: 2026-06-29T14:06:18.182Z
updated: 2026-06-29T14:06:37.470Z
tags: ["cicd", "github-actions"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Automating your Visual Studio extension builds with GitHub Actions

**[Visual Studio Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/vs)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A practical guide to automating Visual Studio extension builds and publishing using GitHub Actions. Covers three reusable custom actions: vsix-version-stamp for automatic versioning, publish-vsixgallery for sharing CI builds, and publish-marketplace for official releases to the Visual Studio Marketplace. Includes a complete workflow YAML example and guidance on mixing and matching the actions depending on your pipeline needs.

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