using VS extension API to be deprecated in future VS 2019 updates

[ImJustStokedToBeHere]

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synchronous auto-load api to be deprecated. line 616 of attached file and more details here

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/16/improving-the-responsiveness-of-critical-scenarios-by-updating-auto-load-behavior-for-extensions/

[sharwell]

@madskristensen I thought this was not supposed to happen for extensions that support Visual Studio prior to 2015.

[ImJustStokedToBeHere]

the only documentation I've seen for exemptions is
here

[sharwell]

@ImJustStokedToBeHere The APIs required to address this issue are not available to extensions that support Visual Studio 2012 or 2013, which this extension does.

[schmerg]

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 (the "production" version as October 2019) has now deprecated the API and refuses to load the extension