Once you have downloaded the LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for Visual Studio 2013, complete the installation steps below:
- Extract Microsoft.LightSwitch.Toolkit.exe to your local machine.
- Double click the Microsoft.LightSwitch.Toolkit.vsix available in the zip file.
- Copy the Microsoft.LightSwitch.Toolkit.targets file from this zip to the following location:
- For 32-bit systems: %ProgramFiles%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\LightSwitch\v4.0
- For 64-bit systems: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\LightSwitch\v4.0
- Open Visual Studio. The project templates for LightSwitch Extension Library are added under the installed Templates| Visual Basic or C#| LightSwitch| Extensibility node in the New Project dialog.