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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...
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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Painting Bug in Visual Studio 2008 SDK Browser
20 February 08 09:03 AM | aaronmar | 2 Comments   
There's a nasty bug in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK browser (i.e. the app you can use to browse the samples, etc...) which can cause it to not be restored from "minimized" and/or cause big ugly red "X"s all over the place. This will be fixed in the next 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...
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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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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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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Big News for VSX from TechEd Europe
05 November 07 08:38 AM | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
Earlier today, Soma (VP for Microsoft Developer Division) announced some big news for VSIP partners and folks doing VSX: Visual Studio 2008 is almost ready for release, and will RTM this month! "As a response to our partners’ request, we are going to Read More...
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Visual Basic Support for Visual Studio Packages
14 September 07 10:24 PM | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
We've just posted the Visual Basic Pack for the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4. This is an add-on pack which adds Visual Basic versions of most of the C# samples as well as a Visual Basic version of the Package Wizard. Also, we will be supporting Visual Read More...
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Why can't I show the "Add New Items" dialog in a WPF flavored project?
31 August 07 09:04 AM | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
If you've downloaded and tried out the IronPythonIntegration sample in the July/August 2007 CTP of the VSSDK, you may have noticed the addition of WPF project support for IronPython projects. We've had questions from folks also trying to add this support Read More...
IronPython Integration Sample and the WPF Designer
01 August 07 04:02 PM | aaronmar | 1 Comments   
[Update Jan 04, 2008: Made <system.codedom> instructions more clear. Thanks to Cory Bloyd for the suggestion.] If you've had the opportunity to work with WPF/.NET 3.0 yet, you've likely run into the x:Class attribute in XAML. If you specify a x:Class Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 SDK Released
31 July 07 08:42 PM | aaronmar | 2 Comments   
We've just released a version of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK targeting Beta 2. You can go grab it here . One of the things that we've added to this release is limited support for the WPF Designer with IronPython . There are some interesting things we had Read More...
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