Microsoft.UI.Xaml by: Microsoft

This package provides backward-compatible versions of Windows UI features including UWP XAML controls, dense control styles, and Fluent styles and materials. It is part of the Windows UI Library.

Microsoft.VisualBasic by: Microsoft

Provides types that support the Visual Basic runtime Commonly Used Types: Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Azure.Containers.Tools.Targets by: Microsoft

Targets files to enable the Visual Studio Tools for Containers.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Client by: Microsoft

Microsoft Visual Studio Services Client Integrate with Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio Team Services from desktop-based, ASP.NET, and other Windows applications. Provides access to shared platform services such as account, profile, identity, security, and more via public REST APIs.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Configuration.Interop by: Microsoft

Managed query API for enumerating Visual Studio setup instances using embeddable interoperability types.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.SlnGen by: Microsoft

Package that contains a tool for generating Visual Studio solution files.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading by: Microsoft

Async synchronization primitives, async collections, TPL and dataflow extensions. The JoinableTaskFactory allows synchronously blocking the UI thread for async work. This package is applicable to any .NET application (not just Visual Studio).

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Threading.Analyzers by: Microsoft

Static code analyzer to detect common mistakes or potential issues regarding threading and async coding.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Validation by: Microsoft

Common input validation and state verification utility methods.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.BrowserLink by: Microsoft

A middleware that supports creating a communication channel between the development environment and one or more web browsers.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration by: Microsoft

Contains the CodeGenCommand that finds the appropriate code generator and invokes it from project dependencies.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Contracts by: Microsoft

Contains interfaces for Project Model and messaging for scaffolding.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Core by: Microsoft

Contains the core infrastructure used by ASP.NET Core Code Generators.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design by: Microsoft

Code Generation tool for ASP.NET Core. Contains the dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator command used for generating controllers and views.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.EntityFrameworkCore by: Microsoft

Contains Entity Framework Core Services used by ASP.NET Core Code Generators.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Templating by: Microsoft

Contains Razor based templating host used by ASP.NET Core Code Generators.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Utils by: Microsoft

Contains utilities used by ASP.NET Core Code Generation packages.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGenerators.Mvc by: Microsoft

Code Generators for ASP.NET Core MVC. Contains code generators for MVC Controllers and Views.

Microsoft.Web.Administration by: Microsoft

The Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace contains classes that a developer can use to administer IIS Manager. With the classes in this namespace, an administrator can read and write configuration information to ApplicationHost.config, Web.config, and Administration.config files. see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosag/archive/2006/04/17/microsoftwebadministration.aspx

Microsoft.Web.LibraryManager.Build by: Microsoft

MSBuild target for the Visual Studio Library Manager