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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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Update on Extension Manager and Visual Studio 2010
24 February 09 12:38 PM
Jason Zander , the General Manager for Visual Studio, has just announced some more details (with screenshots) on the new look and feel for Visual Studio 2010 (which relies heavily on WPF). In the same post, he also includes a screenshot of the new Visual 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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BooLangStudio
23 August 08 07:47 AM
The Boo programming language now has a Codeplex project called BooLangStudio which adds Boo intellisense, project templates, etc… to Visual Studio. Cool! 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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VSX Developer Conference : Sep 15-16, 2008 - Redmond, WA
04 August 08 11:30 AM
In just a few weeks, we’ll be hosting a conference here in Redmond at the Microsoft Conference Center devoted to covering Visual Studio Extensibility. I’ll be presenting a session entitled “Deploying VSX Projects”. One of the best 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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Namespace# - Diagnostics Viewer for HxS (Help 2.0)
06 June 08 07:14 AM
Anand has just announced a new tool called Namespace# for diagnosing problems and working with Help 2.0 integration. I haven't tried it out yet, but this looks like a really promising tool for anyone integrating help content with Visual Studio. Read More...
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Hello, MEF
04 June 08 09:18 PM
Congratulations to the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) team who just released their first CTP! As Gareth mentioned earlier, "this is something to keep an eye on as it will play a role in Visual Studio eXtensibility in the future." Krzysztof Read More...
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Match Options Command Addin
21 March 08 10:56 AM
A while back, there was some interest on the VSX forum around adding back functionality to have "Match Case" and "Match Whole Word" buttons on the toolbar in Visual Studio 2005. At the time, I created a little addin to do this and just posted it to a Read More...
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