May 2004 - Posts

• Going, going....

  Well, there's still a ton of people here at the San Diego Convention Center even though it's down to the last session slot of TechEd 2004. It's a little sad though. Weeks like this are great with tons of learning and great interaction. You hate to see Read More... Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 3:07 PM by AllenD | 3 Comments Filed under: VSIP, Visual Studio

• Winding down...

  Last night's TechEd SeaWorld event was great. We saw the Shamu show first and it was great. Amazing stuff. Then we went to the dolphin show and it was even better. Laughed so hard it hurt. Lots of great TechEd sessions this week. Customers applauded a Read More... Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 10:34 AM by AllenD | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• The Feature Cook-off turned out some great features

  First, the background: The Feature Cook-off was Wed at 8:30AM. Tue morning I was in a panic because I couldn't find some critical information in order to use the Whidbey Manaed Package Framework's Language Service. The wireless (& wired) network at Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:51 PM by AllenD | 4 Comments Filed under: VSIP, Visual Studio

• Ballmer's Keynote Address

  Steve Ballmer is speaking now... There's a bunch of stuff he's saying about VSIP and integrating into Visual Studio. He mentioned 3 new partners during the keynote. He also plugged extensibility features of Visual Studio. And during the part about Office Read More... Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 9:53 AM by AllenD | 3 Comments Filed under: VSIP, Visual Studio

• Accessing IServiceProvider with the Whidbey Managed Package Framework

  In the Whidbey Managed Package Framework in VSIP there's a few different base classes that hold an IServiceProvider interface pointer. This is usually stuffed into a ServiceProvider class and exposed via a protected GetService method on the class. For Read More... Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 9:30 AM by AllenD | 0 Comments Filed under: VSIP

• Another long drive

  I left Redmond, WA on Friday night with my family. Traveled for about 5.5 hours. Stayed in Salem, OR overnight and got back on the road at 6:30 AM. Arrived Paso Robles, CA around 8:00 PM. Traveled for about 13.5 hours. This morning I'm leaving for San Read More... Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:20 AM by AllenD | 2 Comments

• Heading to San Diego

  I'm heading out tonight to OR, CA on Sat, and finally San Diego on Sun. If you're going to Tech Ed 2004, please drop by the VSIP booth in the pavillion and say hello. Read More... Posted Friday, May 21, 2004 4:27 PM by AllenD | 0 Comments

• What would you like to see?

  At TechEd, some of the Extensibility team members will be holding a Cabana session where we will present a menu of possible tools for VS (Add-ins, macros, VSIP packages, etc.) and the audience will be given the choice of what tools should be built during Read More... Posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:59 PM by AllenD | 3 Comments Filed under: VSIP, Visual Studio

• VS Core BIO's

  Check out some of the team members in Visual Studio along with my BIO here . Read More... Posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:33 AM by AllenD | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio