March 2004 - Posts

• Can Addins & managed packages live together?; Getting to the DTE object model from a package

  Addins & Packages - can they talk to each other? I recently received a question on this from a VSIP partner (Velocitis) so I thought I'd share the info with everyone. Getting to a package from an addin is fairly straightforward. The package can expose Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:24 AM by AllenD | 1 Comments Filed under: VSIP

• Extras is released!

  You can now download the release version of the VSIP Extras SDK . The new Visual Studio Extensibility Center on MSDN is also available. Check it out for some cool information on Extensibility including VS Object Model, Macros, Add-ins, VSIP & more.. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:57 AM by AllenD | 2 Comments Filed under: VSIP, Visual Studio

• Localization of Managed Resources and Managed VS Packages

  I received the following question recently: Should I set CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture in my package code? The CurrentUICulture setting is used to direct the Resource Manager load the correct localized resources out of a managed resource satellite dll. Read More... Posted Monday, March 01, 2004 10:25 AM by AllenD | 0 Comments Filed under: VSIP, Visual Studio