Aaron Marten

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“Invalid License Data” after VS 11 Beta to VS 2012 RC Upgrade

We’ve been seeing reports of some users hitting an “Invalid License Data” error on VS startup after...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/02/2012

Visual Studio @ UserVoice

We now have an official site for Visual Studio on UserVoice! Please use this as a way to send...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 07/20/2011

Visual Studio Extensions and Build Servers

From time to time, we see questions around building a project created with the Visual Studio 2010...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/10/2011

Custom Extension Types with VSIX

I just posted an article entitled “Custom Extension Types with VSIX” on the Visual Studio Blog....

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 04/16/2010

Visual Studio 2010 Released

By now you’ve probably heard that we launched Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 today!...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 04/12/2010

Including Existing Templates in a VSIX Container

In the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, we have several samples (most notably, IronPythonIntegration) set up...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 03/12/2010

Targeting VS 2008 with the Visual Studio 2010 SDK

Recently, a customer asked us if it was possible to develop and debug a VB/C# extension with Visual...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 12/07/2009

All Your RegKeys Are Belong To Us

I’ve been in many discussions lately with various folks about Visual Studio 2010 extensibility....

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 11/06/2009

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (+SDK) on MSDN

We’ve just released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (and the SDK) on MSDN. If you’re a MSDN subscriber,...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 10/19/2009

Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines

One of the things you may notice is missing from the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK (compared to...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/25/2009

What is the “VSIX Project” template?

Disclaimer : This is about working with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK. Information is likely to...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/09/2009

Pkgdef and the Experimental Instance in VS 2010

***Disclaimer: This information is about Visual Studio 2010 only. The following may not be accurate...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/05/2009

Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1

The Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 is now available for download. Be sure to check out the latest...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/21/2009

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Shipped

Somasegar (VP in charge of DevDiv) has just blogged that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has been released...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/18/2009

Consolas : Default Editor Font in VS 2010

Yesterday, the folks responsible for building the core text editor in Visual Studio announced that...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 03/12/2009

New Syndication URL

I’ve moved the syndication feed for this blog to use FeedBurner. If you read this blog via an...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/24/2009

Update on Extension Manager and Visual Studio 2010

Jason Zander, the General Manager for Visual Studio, has just announced some more details (with...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/24/2009

F# Included in Visual Studio 2010

Don Syme has just announced that F# will ship in the box with Visual Studio 2010.

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 12/11/2008

Extension Manager

One of the new features we plan on shipping for VS 2010 that I've been heads down on for the past...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 11/04/2008

Split Window / New Window – Bad Painting Behavior in your Language Service

Recently, a question was asked on the VSX Forum about bad behavior from a language service after the...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 09/10/2008

BooLangStudio

The Boo programming language now has a Codeplex project called BooLangStudio which adds Boo...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/23/2008

Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Released

Earlier this week, we released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1. This is the SDK which is compatible...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/23/2008

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Shipped

We shipped Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 to the web this morning! Soma has more details....

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/11/2008

VSX Developer Conference : Sep 15-16, 2008 - Redmond, WA

In just a few weeks, we’ll be hosting a conference here in Redmond at the Microsoft Conference...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/04/2008

Package Load Key Generator

Recently, we published a simple web page that will generate a Package/Shell Load Key for you...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/25/2008

Namespace# - Diagnostics Viewer for HxS (Help 2.0)

Anand has just announced a new tool called Namespace# for diagnosing problems and working with Help...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/06/2008

Hello, MEF

Congratulations to the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) team who just released their first CTP!...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/05/2008

VSX MSDN Forum Updated

Looks like the VSX Forum has been migrated over to the new MSDN Forums!

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/29/2008

Match Options Command Addin

A while back, there was some interest on the VSX forum around adding back functionality to have...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 03/21/2008

Lang .NET Videos Back Up

Enjoy!

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 03/20/2008

Lang .NET Videos Down

FYI...Jimmy has an update on where the Lang .NET videos went. The company hosting the server...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/29/2008

VSX Videos on Channel 9

Yesterday, Ken Levy and I sat down with Dan from Channel 9 to have an unscripted discussion about...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/27/2008

Soma has just announced, the new Visual Studio Gallery. The gallery is the central location where...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/27/2008

Creating a VSPackage with F#

Ever since Mattox Beckman introduced the OCaml language to those of us lucky enough to be in his...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/25/2008

Painting Bug in Visual Studio 2008 SDK Browser

There's a nasty bug in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK browser (i.e. the app you can use to browse the...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/20/2008

Lang .NET Talk

A few weeks ago, Carl Brochu and I had the incredible opportunity to speak at the 2008 Lang .NET...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/20/2008

FREE Visual Studio 2008 for College Students via DreamSpark

A few years ago, back when I was in college, there was an academic program from Microsoft (called...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/19/2008

VSX Group on Facebook

In case any of you passionate VSX developers out there also happen to be on Facebook, you might want...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/07/2008

Remember to reset your Experimental hive

If you open and build one of the samples in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, and see the following error,...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/07/2008

Webcast on DSL Tools Tomorrow (Tues 1/29) Morning

Sorry for the late notice, but I just saw a note from Gareth that he will be doing a webcast on...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 01/28/2008

Upgrading VSPackage source projects to target Visual Studio 2008

James has a great post about updating a project that was building with the Visual Studio 2005 SDK to...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 01/22/2008

IronPython Studio

Ever since we first released the IronPythonIntegration sample in the Visual Studio SDK, one of the...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 12/12/2007

We are Hiring

The Visual Studio Ecosystem Group (includes the Visual Studio SDK + DSL Tools) is hiring! If you'd...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 12/07/2007

Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 & the Visual Studio 2008 Shell have Shipped!

Over on the VSX Team Blog, we've announced that the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 has shipped! You can...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 11/21/2007

Visual Studio 2008 has Shipped!

We've just released Visual Studio 2008 to manufacturing and the web! MSDN subscribers can go...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 11/19/2007

Big News for VSX from TechEd Europe

Earlier today, Soma (VP for Microsoft Developer Division) announced some big news for VSIP partners...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 11/05/2007

Speaking at DevTeach in Vancouver

I'll be presenting a session entitled "An Introduction to Visual Studio Extensibility" at the...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 10/03/2007

Hot off the servers: CoDe Magazine on VSX

This has already been mentioned on the VSX Team blog, but CoDe Magazine has just published a special...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 09/28/2007

Visual Basic Support for Visual Studio Packages

We've just posted the Visual Basic Pack for the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4. This is an add-on...

Author: Aaron Marten Date: 09/15/2007

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