April 2007 - Posts

Enter VSX
28 April 07 09:00 PM | aaronmar | 1 Comments   

A new acronym that you'll see myself and others using more of now is VSX, which stands for Visual Studio eXtensibility (and sure is a lot easier to say in conversation!). There's even a new URL you can use for accessing the VSX developer center: http://www.msdn.com/vsx Read More...

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Visual Studio SDK for Orcas Beta 1
27 April 07 08:03 PM | aaronmar | 2 Comments   

We've just released a version of the Visual Studio SDK that targets Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 . You can download it from http://www.vsipmembers.com/ (free registration required). Beyond targeting "Orcas", all the supported VSIntegration samples (Both Read More...

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CTC is dead...Long Live VSCT! (Part 1)
02 April 07 02:26 PM | aaronmar | 7 Comments   

One of the pieces of feedback we've gotten for a while now around creating a Visual Studio Package is the difficulty of working with the CTC format. This is the pseudo-C++ file that you use to specify what menus/groups/buttons/etc... your VSPackage provides Read More...

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Package Load Analyzer
02 April 07 01:18 PM | aaronmar | 2 Comments   

One of the great new features that we've added to the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4.0 is a tool called the Package Load Analyzer. One of the pieces of feedback that we receive from our Visual Studio partners is that sometimes it can be difficult to Read More...

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