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All Your RegKeys Are Belong To Us
06 November 09 09:39 AM
I’ve been in many discussions lately with various folks about Visual Studio 2010 extensibility. Inevitably, someone suggests a solution to some problem involving changing/adding/deleting a registry key/value for an extension. If you need to do this, just Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines
24 June 09 09:01 PM
One of the things you may notice is missing from the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK (compared to 2008) are the user interface guidelines. You can now find the Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines at the following location: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VS2010U Read More...
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Pkgdef and the Experimental Instance in VS 2010
05 June 09 08:42 AM
***Disclaimer: This information is about Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 only. The following may not be accurate for future releases.*** One of the new features we introduced with the Visual Studio 2008 Isolated Shell was the concept of a pkgdef file . Pkgdef Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1
21 May 09 10:04 AM
The Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 is now available for download. Be sure to check out the latest supplemental readme as you’re likely to encounter some of these issues in using the SDK. Read More...
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Extension Manager
04 November 08 05:40 AM
One of the new features we plan on shipping for VS 2010 that I've been heads down on for the past few months is the "Extension Manager". I'll be posting more details about it here over the next several months. For the meantime, you can hear Read More...
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Split Window / New Window – Bad Painting Behavior in your Language Service
10 September 08 10:32 AM
Recently, a question was asked on the VSX Forum about bad behavior from a language service after the user issues a “split window” or “new window” command. (Fonts are wrong, scroll bars don’t work and are corrupt, etc…) Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Released
23 August 08 07:24 AM
Earlier this week, we released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 . This is the SDK which is compatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The blog post linked above has more details on new features and fixes in this release. Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Shipped
11 August 08 12:56 PM
We shipped Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 to the web this morning! Soma has more details. We are currently putting the finishing touches on the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 (which targets SP1) and plan on releasing it soon. Read More...
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Package Load Key Generator
25 June 08 08:38 AM
Recently, we published a simple web page that will generate a Package/Shell Load Key for you immediately. No more waiting for an email to arrive, logging in with Live ID, etc… Read More...
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VSX Videos on Channel 9
27 February 08 09:08 AM
Yesterday, Ken Levy and I sat down with Dan from Channel 9 to have an unscripted discussion about Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) (including finding a bug live during an untested, on-the-fly demo!). We also discussed creating your own Visual Studio Read More...
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Visual Studio Gallery
27 February 08 08:42 AM
Soma has just announced , the new Visual Studio Gallery . The gallery is the central location where you can find (and advertise) Visual Studio extensions. All you need to add an entry on the gallery is a Windows Live ID, so if you have a free/open-source Read More...
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Creating a VSPackage with F#
25 February 08 11:07 AM
Ever since Mattox Beckman introduced the OCaml language to those of us lucky enough to be in his "Languages and Compilers" course back at UIUC , I've had an interest in functional languages. A few months ago, Soma announced that Microsoft will be turning Read More...
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Lang .NET Talk
20 February 08 08:03 AM
A few weeks ago, Carl Brochu and I had the incredible opportunity to speak at the 2008 Lang .NET Symposium that was hosted here on the main Microsoft campus (alongside some much more well-known folks in the software industry ). Our talk was titled "Integrating Read More...
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FREE Visual Studio 2008 for College Students via DreamSpark
19 February 08 07:46 AM
A few years ago, back when I was in college , there was an academic program from Microsoft (I don't remember what it was called) where you could get Windows and the Academic version of Visual Studio by going to the CS department office, checking out some Read More...
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Remember to reset your Experimental hive
07 February 08 10:39 AM
If you open and build one of the samples in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, and see the following error, DON'T PANIC (and don't forget your towel). Failed to retrieve paths under VSTemplate for the specified registry hive. This is a build error you will see Read More...
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