Hello all.  I wanted to share with everyone some info about the upcoming VSX Developer Conference the Visual Studio Ecosystem team and the VSIP team is hosting in September. This event is being hosted on Microsoft Campus in Redmond at the Microsoft Conference Center on September 15th & 16th...

One of the biggest areas the Visual Studio Ecosystem team receives feedback on is around difficulties with acquiring and installing Package Load Keys (PLK) which are needed for deploying your Visual Studio Package to a machine that doesn't have the Visual Studio SDK installed. Historically PLK's &...

Over the last few months the Visual Studio Gallery has been growing as the one stop shop for Visual Studio Extensions. We launched the Visual Studio Gallery with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and in just three months we’ve gathered 600 extensions. It has been great to see just how well recieved this...

I just produced my first channel 9 video. The subject is about how to get started with creating an editor using the VS SDK package wizard. Check it out at: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=215138 Anthony

Over the last two sprints we updated the package wizard output for editor scenarios. In the June CTP we updated the wizard for generating C++ code that matched the new Reference Editor sample. During the June CTP we also completed the wizard changes needed to generate C# code that matched the Reference...