Anthony @ MS

Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing

acangialosi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:21 GMT

There is plenty of new functionality in VS 2010 but not nearly as much information on extending it. Karl Shifflett published a two part series on creating design times for Silverlight & WPF controls in 2010. Take a look: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/extensibility-series-wpf-silverlight-design-time-code-sharing-part-i...(read more)

NDepends Static Analysis Tools

acangialosi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:48:03 GMT

I just heard that folks that build the NDepends Static Analysis tools are working on their Visual Studio 2010 version. They tell me they will have it ready by the time we ship Visual Studio which will be a great complement. For my first time...(read more)

Tabs Studio - advanced window tabs for VS IDE

acangialosi — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:47:36 GMT

I noticed an update to an extension on the Visual Studio Gallery last week. Tab Studio extends the tab well region of Visual Studio to give you an alternate view of the documents you have open. I haven’t tried it personally yet but I’ve seen...(read more)

Visual Studio Gallery - There’s an extension for that parody

acangialosi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:49:41 GMT

Found a parody on YouTube that’s pretty entertaining. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysQ43s9U4Y...(read more)

Jetbrains Resharper for VS 2010 Preview now Available

acangialosi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:13:26 GMT

I’ve heard a lot of buzz from customers looking to get a hold of a version of Resharper that works with VS 2010 Beta 1. Well the folks over at Jetbrains have started releasing a preview of their VS 2010 version here: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+for+Visual+Studio+2010+(Preview)...(read more)

Extensibility opportunities in VS 2010

acangialosi — Sat, 23 May 2009 05:00:02 GMT

Terry just posted two great blogs talking about how you can extend features in Visual Studio 2010 Professional and how you can extend Visual Studio 2010 Team System. Visual Studio 2010 New Features, Extensibility Points and Partner Opportunities Visual...(read more)

Concurrent Access just posted Reference Assistant, a new VS 2010 extension

acangialosi — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:32:05 GMT

Reference assistant helps you visualize the dependencies in your .NET application to help speed up development, improve your deployments, and debug sticky dependency bugs. Some of the interesting features I read about were their Visualizer for IoC / DI...(read more)

Tangible just released their T4 Editor that works with VS 2010

acangialosi — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:50:39 GMT

You can use text templates to author your own code generators with intellisense & syntax-highlighting in Visual Studio. This naturally has powerful applications for tool vendors looking to output code from non-textual representations of a domain...(read more)

Calling all extensions for Visual Studio 2010

acangialosi — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:32:12 GMT

Extensibility is one of the big initiatives on my team for Visual Studio 2010. We are eager to see all the interesting and innovative concepts that people come up with to extend Visual Studio 2010 and make their lives more productive. Big...(read more)

New Visual Studio Gallery is Live

acangialosi — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:21:57 GMT

Last week we launched the newest update to the Visual Studio Gallery , the one stop shop for finding Products & extensions for Visual Studio. With this release we’ve added enhancements that make finding & sharing extensions on the Visual...(read more)

Test Post

acangialosi — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:04:46 GMT

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That was cool… Using Named Dates in Outlook Calendar Appointments

acangialosi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:03:57 GMT

Being a creature that operates exclusively on habit, as is proven by a few forehead marks from poles I might walk into from time to time, I have to habitual-ize (made up word) something new like blogging for me to really get any value from it. I...(read more)

Great to see collaboration between VSIPs

acangialosi — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:10:27 GMT

Yesterday I did an internal demo of products from two of our partners, StudioWorks Component One . StudioWorks, with its products Designbox & Design Gallery , enhances the Visual Studio Windows application design experience with a library of...(read more)

2008 VSX Conference Screencasts are Live

acangialosi — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:59:30 GMT

Morning everyone. It's been just over a month since our VSX Conference but it feels like it just finished yesterday. I truly enjoyed meeting everyone at the conference, particularly the active community members that until now I've only known through pen...(read more)

VSX Conference agenda & speaker bios posted

acangialosi — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:01:50 GMT

We just posted the agenda & speaker biographies for the VSX Conference coming up next month from September 15 - 16th. Use the online agenda to get a sense of what the various tracks will cover and start thinking about which sessions you will want...(read more)