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Package Load Key Generator
25 June 08 08:38 AM | aaronmar | 0 Comments   
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...
Namespace# - Diagnostics Viewer for HxS (Help 2.0)
06 June 08 07:14 AM | aaronmar | 2 Comments   
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 | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
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 | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
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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VSX Videos on Channel 9
27 February 08 09:08 AM | aaronmar | 2 Comments   
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...
Visual Studio Gallery
27 February 08 08:42 AM | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
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...
Creating a VSPackage with F#
25 February 08 11:07 AM | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
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 | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
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...
FREE Visual Studio 2008 for College Students via DreamSpark
19 February 08 07:46 AM | aaronmar | 2 Comments   
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...
VSX Group on Facebook
07 February 08 06:28 PM | aaronmar | 0 Comments   
In case any of you passionate VSX developers out there also happen to be on Facebook , you might want to check out the VSX Group . It doesn't seem to be being used for much at the moment, but it is another way you can connect with other folks also extending Read More...
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Remember to reset your Experimental hive
07 February 08 10:39 AM | aaronmar | 0 Comments   
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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Webcast on DSL Tools Tomorrow (Tues 1/29) Morning
28 January 08 08:48 PM | aaronmar | 0 Comments   
Sorry for the late notice, but I just saw a note from Gareth that he will be doing a webcast on Domain Specific Development with DSL Tools tomorrow, Tuesday, January 29 at 9:00 AM (Pacific Standard Time). Gareth's a great presenter....if you're at all Read More...
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Upgrading VSPackage source projects to target Visual Studio 2008
22 January 08 07:43 AM | aaronmar | 0 Comments   
James has a great post about updating a project that was building with the Visual Studio 2005 SDK to build in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK. Read More...
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IronPython Studio
12 December 07 12:00 PM | aaronmar | 0 Comments   
Ever since we first released the IronPythonIntegration sample in the Visual Studio SDK, one of the constant requests we receive is along the lines of "where can I download and install it without having to build it?". IronPython Studio is the Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 & the Visual Studio 2008 Shell have Shipped!
20 November 07 09:18 PM | aaronmar | 0 Comments   
Over on the VSX Team Blog, we've announced that the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 has shipped ! You can download the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 from the VSX Dev Center. Enjoy and please send us feedback! Read More...
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