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Preview image and data files with the MetaProject extension

Preview image and data files with the MetaProject extension - Visual Studio Tutorial

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Preview image and data files with the MetaProject extension

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- [Narrator] Once you have the MetaProject extension installed it can be enhanced by installing additional associated extensions. I like to think of these as plugins for the MetaProject extension. So this is the main extension and these are some of the helper extensions. They start with the word preview. So there's one for PNG, one for XML and one for JSON. Now you can learn more about what's available by clicking here and then clicking on more information. Then on the MetaProject page scroll down to this section and these are the additional extensions that you can install and click on one of these links to learn more. So I've already opened the one for Preview-JSON. And this says it provides a quick preview of JSON files without opening it. What does that mean? Let me show you. Back in visual studio I will close this dialogue, then we want to see this window on the bottom of the screen. If you don't see it and…

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