While reading my email, I came across a message that looked very interesting. It was an email in regards to the extensibility of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Back in fall at the PDC conference, the Visual Studio team showed off how easy it was to extend Visual Studio. So you might be asking yourself, well so!
Examples of cool things you can do:
Just from looking at the stuff available from the gallery, I think the RegEx Editor Sample is very promising. I can’t tell you how many times I have gone out to the internet to find Regex engine to help parse strings.
Have a look for yourself. Maybe you will find a tool that will help take a burden from your daily coding. If you feel lucky, maybe you will be the next developer to write the next best extension!
Happy coding!
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Also included in VS2010 (and included in this beta release) are significant extensions to Dotfuscator CE that permit
* the injection of feature and session monitoring (streaming usage data to a developer-specified endpoint),
* the injection of application expiry dates, and
* the injection of tamper defense and notification.
Opt-in/Opt-out logic can also be injected.
Microsoft first announced this functionality at PDC2008
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-27PreEmptivePR.mspx
If you want a detailed walk through, check out Bill Leach’s blog entry at http://blogs.preemptive.com/post/Whate28099s-new-with-Dotfuscator-in-Visual-Studio-2010-Beta-1.aspx
And for those that subscribe to Directions On Microsoft, there is a review of this functionality included in the June Update