We were founded in 2005 in a tiny apartment in Bucharest, Romania as DeskOver.

Fittingly, it was a customer who, in 2012, first saw the immense possibilities for us in the fledgling RPA market. Our desktop automation product launched in 2013. In 2015, we introduced our enterprise platform along with our new name.

Today, UiPath is the fastest-growing enterprise software company in history with scores of offices, thousands of employees, partnerships with the world’s best consulting and BPO firms, a 500,000-strong developer community, and 5MM+ robots at work in over 5,000 global enterprises.

Our mission is to deliver the leading Robotic Process Automation platform to our clients for an automation first mindset.

We build software robots that automate repetitive processes. Our software robots take on the tedious, mind-numbing work and free people to do the more stimulating, creative work worth doing.

But no matter how much we’ve grown, one thing hasn’t changed. We’re still building a company we love to work for

Activities are the fundamental building blocks of process automations and all contain the same basic structure and boilerplate code. Why waste the time writing all this yourself when it can be auto-generated for you?

The UiPath Activity Creator allows you to easily create custom activities that work immediately in UiPath Studio. The new extension is entirely wizard-based, meaning you simply fill in fields like activity name, description, properties, types, and the entirety of the activity code is generated, including:

From there, just fill in the execution logic telling your activity what to do and you're done! If you know C#, you can now create UiPath activities!

See our NEW guide on How to Create Activities to get started:

https://docs.uipath.com/integrations/docs/how-to-create-activities

A Visual Studio extension that creates custom activities for you in minutes!

Integrations Lead

Hi, I manually downloaded the vsix file from Visual Studio MarketPlace since I can't search this through the Extensions dialog in my VS (I'm assuming it's because of access settings in my company) but I can't install it. I'm having the following error. May I know what Visual Studio versions is this compatible with and any idea on what is the cause of the error? I'm using Visual Studio Professional 2012 btw.

VSIXInstaller.NoApplicableSKUsException: This extension is not installable on any currently installed products.

Any plans extend this to other versions of VS (2017) ?Would think that from a VS Extension perspective, there would not be that much difference between 2017 and 2019...?

Please let us know in detail which components of Visual Studio 2019 is required so that it will cut down the installation of unnecessary components.

I followed the tutorial on my 1st activity, however the Publish option is missing. 

hi, I am not able connect my robot to orchastrator ,the icon on the desktop is showing as the robot unavaiable .how to solve the issue 

Could it be possible to create two or more scope activities in one library? At the moment it isn't, only one scope activity can be defined.

At the declarations of the variable types I want to use the type dynamic, but I can't find it. So it was necessary to changed it in the code after the definition. Is it possible to extend the choosing of variables about this kind of data type?

How do i add Dropdown to my Custom Activity?

i was able to do that earlier with Enum, but while using Activity Creator, im confused where to put my default Values

I wanted to create child activities for a scope activity but so far I have not found any documentation regarding this issue.

I also was wondering if it is possible (reasonable) to extend an existing scope activity like the Excel Application Scope?

I have installed the extension But when I try to use add Activity option, it's disabled i couldn't able to use that.

This is going to end up being a silly question. Once I have my activity created and I need to go back and add a few more properties, can I get back into the wizard to do that? If so, how? I know I can just edit the code but I would rather not.

Dean - I could use some guidance here. I followed the steps and downloaded the UiPath Activity Creater exactly as instructed but I do not see UiPath Activity when I create a new project after I have restarted Visual Studio 2019. I searched the usual forums but the answer isn't clear. The one thing I noticed is that the instructions have asked for Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise but I have used the Community version. Could this be the issue? If not, what else could be wrong?

Hi Dean - i downloaded the UiPath Activity Creator as instructed in the Quick Start: 5 minute activity set. After the installation was complete, I restarted Visual Studio 2019 and followed the instructions to find UiPath Activity Creator in the search box but I couldn't find it. Since then, I have searched forums, uninstalled and resinstalled the Activity Creator, and restarted my computer and tried again but I'm facing the same issue. The only difference I see is that I am using the Community version of VS19. Do I need to use the Enterprise addition?

Useful contribution - I put only 4 stars because documentation is needed to start with. Actually, The role of Parent scope versus ActivityChild should be clarified and well understood specially when URL endpoint is not needed.
Hope this docs will come soon.


Very good starting point - I must agree with Ali, greate plugin, but documentation could be more detailed :-)


 - Very useful VS extension for custom activity developer. We can easily build a custom activity which has scope and async function.


Very useful extension.. Helps to reduce whole lot of work and we can focus on the core logic... I would also suggest to improve the documentation.. At one point I was confused with the activity scope. So would be better to have some details on those two...

Overall, great work!!

Super helpful extension!

Documentation is here
https://docs.uipath.com/integrations/docs/how-to-create-activities
demo link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL72gVkc1Qo

Excellent extension, the creation of own activities are simplified and accelerated.

Nice Extension... Now its been more tightly bounded with the source code.

Easy to create activities in Visual studio

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