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diff --git a/docs/extensibility/best-practices-for-implementing-a-source-control-plug-in.md b/docs/extensibility/best-practices-for-implementing-a-source-control-plug-in.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
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 title: Implementing a source control plug-in - best practices
+description: Review these technical details to help you reliably implement a source control plug-in in Visual Studio.
 ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/binding-keyboard-shortcuts-to-menu-items.md b/docs/extensibility/binding-keyboard-shortcuts-to-menu-items.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Binding Keyboard Shortcuts to Menu Items | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to map a keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio to a custom button, menu item, or toolbar command for either the default editor or a custom editor.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/bitflags-used-by-specific-commands.md b/docs/extensibility/bitflags-used-by-specific-commands.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Bitflags Used by Specific Commands | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn about the bitflags used by the Source Control Plug-in API, organized by the function that uses them.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/bitmap-element.md b/docs/extensibility/bitmap-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Bitmap Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The Bitmap element defines a bitmap. The bitmap is loaded either from a resource or from a file. This article contains an example.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/bitmaps-element.md b/docs/extensibility/bitmaps-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Bitmaps Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The Bitmaps element groups one or more Bitmap elements. This article contains an example of the Bitmaps element.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/breaking-changes-2017.md b/docs/extensibility/breaking-changes-2017.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Breaking Changes in Visual Studio 2017 extensibility
+description: Learn about technical details of breaking changes made to the extensibility model in Visual Studio 2017 and what you can do to address them.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 titleSuffix: ''
 ms.date: 11/09/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/button-element.md b/docs/extensibility/button-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Button Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: "The Button element defines an element that the user can interact with. Buttons can be different kinds: Button, MenuButton, and SplitDropDown."
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/buttons-element.md b/docs/extensibility/buttons-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Buttons Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The Buttons element groups Button elements, which represent individual commands. This article contains an example.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/buttontext-element.md b/docs/extensibility/buttontext-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: ButtonText Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The ButtonText element lets you specify the text that appears in various menus. The ButtonText element cannot be blank even if other text fields are specified.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/callback-functions-implemented-by-the-ide.md b/docs/extensibility/callback-functions-implemented-by-the-ide.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Callback Functions Implemented by the IDE | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn about the callback functions which the plug-in can call at appropriate times during a source control operation to pass information to the IDE.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/capability-flags.md b/docs/extensibility/capability-flags.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Capability Flags | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn about the SCC_CAP_xxx flags that indicate the capabilities of a source control plug-in and the SCC_EXCAP_xxx flags that indicate extended capabilities.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/changing-the-appearance-of-a-command.md b/docs/extensibility/changing-the-appearance-of-a-command.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Changing the Appearance of a Command | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to provide feedback changing the appearance of a command, such as making commands available/unavailable, hidden/shown, or checked/unchecked.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/changing-the-text-of-a-menu-command.md b/docs/extensibility/changing-the-text-of-a-menu-command.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Changing the Text of a Menu Command | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to change the text label of a menu command by using the IMenuCommandService service by reviewing this code example.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/choosing-between-shared-and-versioned-vspackages.md b/docs/extensibility/choosing-between-shared-and-versioned-vspackages.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Choosing Between Shared and Versioned VSPackages | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn about side-by-side installations of VSPackages through shared or versioned strategies, with multiple versions of Visual Studio and of the .NET Framework.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/com-constants-in-managed-code.md b/docs/extensibility/com-constants-in-managed-code.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: COM Constants in Managed Code | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn about the Managed Package Framework, which makes some standard COM constants available to managed code.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/combo-element.md b/docs/extensibility/combo-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Combo Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: "The Combo element defines commands that appear in a combo box. There are four kinds: DropDownCombo, DynamicCombo, IndexCombo, and MRUCombo."
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
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diff --git a/docs/extensibility/combos-element.md b/docs/extensibility/combos-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Combos Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The Combos element groups Combo elements, which define commands that appear in a combo box. This article contains an example.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/command-code-enumerator.md b/docs/extensibility/command-code-enumerator.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Command Code Enumerator | Microsoft Docs
+description: The Command code enumerator is used in options for SccGetCommandOptions and SccPopulateListto to indicate the command for which the options are specified.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/command-flag-element.md b/docs/extensibility/command-flag-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Command Flag Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The Command flag Element modifies its parent element. Review its parent elements and child elements.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/command-line-switches-visual-studio-sdk.md b/docs/extensibility/command-line-switches-visual-studio-sdk.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Command-Line Switches (Visual Studio SDK) | Microsoft Docs
+description: Devenv.exe supports command-line switches specifically for development of VSPackages. Use the articles in this section to learn about the command-line switches.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/commandname-element.md b/docs/extensibility/commandname-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: CommandName Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The CommandName element specifies the text that appears in the keyboard category in the Options dialog box and in the Commands list in the Customize dialog box.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/commandplacement-element.md b/docs/extensibility/commandplacement-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: CommandPlacement Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The CommandPlacement element enables buttons, groups, and menus to be included in more than one group or menu. 
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/commandplacements-element.md b/docs/extensibility/commandplacements-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: CommandPlacements Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: The CommandPlacements element groups CommandPlacement elements and other CommandPlacements groupings. The CommandPlacements element is optional.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 f1_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/commands-element.md b/docs/extensibility/commands-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Commands Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: "The Commands element represents the collection of commands on the VSPackage toolbar and can have these sections: menus, groups, buttons, combos, and bitmaps."
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 f1_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/commandtable-element.md b/docs/extensibility/commandtable-element.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: CommandTable Element | Microsoft Docs
+description: CommandTable is the root element of the .vsct file, which defines the layout and type of the commands that a VSPackage provides to the IDE.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: conceptual
 f1_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-a-basic-project-system-part-1.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-a-basic-project-system-part-1.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Creating a Basic Project System, Part 1 | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to create a project type named extension.myproj. In Visual Studio, projects are containers used to organize source code files and other assets.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-a-basic-project-system-part-2.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-a-basic-project-system-part-2.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating a Basic Project System, Part 2 | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to add a Visual Studio template, a property page, and other features to a project created in a previous article.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-a-custom-start-page.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-a-custom-start-page.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating a Custom Start Page | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to create a custom Start Page. Begin with a blank start page, add controls to the empty UserControl element, and then test your page.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.assetid: d67e0c53-9f5a-45fb-a929-b9d2125c3c82

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-a-multi-instance-tool-window.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-a-multi-instance-tool-window.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Creating a Multi-Instance Tool Window | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to modify a tool window so that multiple instances of it can be open simultaneously. By default, tool windows can have only one instance open.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-a-settings-category.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-a-settings-category.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating a Settings Category | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to create a Visual Studio settings category and use it to save and restore values from a settings file.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-a-software-development-kit.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-a-software-development-kit.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating a Software Development Kit | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn about the general infrastructure of SDKs and how to create a platform SDK and an extension SDK.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.assetid: 8496afb4-1573-4585-ac67-c3d58b568a12

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-a-wpf-toolbox-control.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-a-wpf-toolbox-control.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating a WPF Toolbox Control | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to use the WPF Toolbox Control template to create a Toolbox control that you can distribute to other users.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 3/16/2019
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-an-extension-with-a-menu-command.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-an-extension-with-a-menu-command.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating an Extension with a Menu Command | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to create an extension with a menu command that launches Notepad. Create a menu command and then change the menu command handler.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 3/16/2019
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-an-extension-with-a-tool-window.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-an-extension-with-a-tool-window.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating an Extension with a Tool Window | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to use the VSIX project template and the Custom Tool Window item template to create an extension with a tool window.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 3/16/2019
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.assetid: 585b0a3a-f85b-4f92-81bb-9ca499bb8a89

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-an-extension-with-a-vspackage.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-an-extension-with-a-vspackage.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Creating an Extension with a VSPackage | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to create a VSIX project and add a VSPackage project item using the VSPackage to get the UI Shell service in order to show a message box.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 3/16/2019
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.assetid: c0cc5e08-4897-44f2-8309-e3478f1f999e

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-an-extension-with-an-editor-item-template.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-an-extension-with-an-editor-item-template.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating an Extension with an Editor Item Template | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to use item templates in the Visual Studio SDK to create basic editor extensions that add classifiers, adornments, and margins to the editor.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-an-options-page.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-an-options-page.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Creating an Options Page | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to create a simple Tools/Options page that uses a property grid to examine and set properties.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 3/16/2019
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-and-managing-modal-dialog-boxes.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-and-managing-modal-dialog-boxes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Creating and Managing Modal Dialog Boxes | Microsoft Docs
+description: Learn how to create a modal dialog box inside Visual Studio, both by using DialogWindow and without using DialogWindow.
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:

diff --git a/docs/extensibility/creating-custom-editors-and-designers.md b/docs/extensibility/creating-custom-editors-and-designers.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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 title: Creating Custom Editors and Designers | Microsoft Docs
+description: "Learn about the different types of editors that can by hosted by the Visual Studio IDE: the core editor, custom editors, external editors, and designers."
+ms.custom: SEO-VS-2020
 ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: how-to
 helpviewer_keywords:
@@ -98,4 +100,4 @@ Explains how to create UI elements that match the rest of [!INCLUDE[vsprvs](../c
 
 ## See also
 
-- <xref:Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsEditorFactory>
+- <xref:Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsEditorFactory>
diff --git a/docs/install/visual-studio-build-numbers-and-release-dates.md b/docs/install/visual-studio-build-numbers-and-release-dates.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: A list of released versions and build numbers for Visual Studio, so
 author: ornellaalt
 ms.author: ornella
 manager: jillfra
-ms.date: 11/12/2020
+ms.date: 11/19/2020
 ms.topic: reference
 ms.workload:
 - multiple
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ The following table lists the build numbers and release dates for Visual Studio
 
 | **Version**| **Channel** | **Release date** | **Build version** |
 | ---------------------- | ----------- | ---------------- | ----------------- |
+| 16.8.2 | Release | November 19, 2020 | 16.8.30717.126 |
 | 16.8.1 | Release | November 12, 2020 | 16.8.30711.63 |
 | 16.9.0 | Preview 1 | November 10, 2020 | 16.9.30709.64 |
 | 16.7.8 | Release | November 10, 2020 | 16.7.30704.19 |

diff --git a/docs/python/learn-flask-visual-studio-step-02-create-app.md b/docs/python/learn-flask-visual-studio-step-02-create-app.md
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ In the code created by the "Blank Flask Web Project" template, you have a single
 
 7. Select **Debug** > **Start Debugging** (**F5**) or use the **Web Server** button on the toolbar (the browser you see may vary) to start the app and open a browser. Try both the / and /home URL routes.
 
-8. You can also set breakpoints at various parts of the code and restart the app to follow the startup sequence. For example, set a breakpoint on the first lines of *runserver.py* and *HelloFlask\_*init_*.py*, and on the `return "Hello Flask!"` line in *views.py*. Then restart the app (**Debug** > **Restart**, **Ctrl**+**F5**, or the toolbar button shown below) and step through (**F10**) the code, or run from each breakpoint using **F5**.
+8. You can also set breakpoints at various parts of the code and restart the app to follow the startup sequence. For example, set a breakpoint on the first lines of *runserver.py* and *HelloFlask\_*init_*.py*, and on the `return "Hello Flask!"` line in *views.py*. Then restart the app (**Debug** > **Restart**, **Ctrl**+**Shift**+**F5**, or the toolbar button shown below) and step through (**F10**) the code, or run from each breakpoint using **F5**.
 
     ![Restart button on the debugging toolbar in Visual Studio](media/debugging-restart-toolbar-button.png)
 

diff --git a/docs/python/profiling-python-code-in-visual-studio.md b/docs/python/profiling-python-code-in-visual-studio.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ You can profile a Python application when using CPython-based interpreters. (See
 
 ## Profiling for CPython-based interpreters
 
-Profiling is started through the **Analyze** > **Launch Python Profiling** menu command, which opens a configuration dialog:
+Profiling is started through the **Debug** > **Launch Python Profiling** menu command, which opens a configuration dialog:
 
 ![Profiling configuration dialog](media/profiling-start.png)