I had a fun ride on the VSX team over the last 3 years. It was great shipping VS 2005, VS 2008 and the SDKs and also working with VSIP partners, attending VSIP conferences and sharing some great ideas on improving developer productivity. I am confident...

I will be attending TechEd EMEA in Barcelona and presenting at the VSIP dev lab being held on Nov 9 and Nov 10. We have a couple of talks on customizing Visual Studio in the general sessions: - Discussing Various Scenarios for Customizing Visual Studio...

As we come close to shipping VS 2008 SDK V1, I would like to talk a little about the future of the VS SDK and the plans we have around supporting the extensibility community. We have been focussing a lot on the samples and tooling to make it easier...

The next VSIP conference starts Oct 15 and runs through Oct 17. This is one of the biggest VSIP conference we have organized in the history of the VSIP program. I will be presenting on Oct 16, 2007 during the conference and my presentation will provide...

The VB pack for VS SDK 2005 is now released. It provides the SDK samples converted in the Visual Basic language and a new wizard that is used for generating Visual Basic based integration Packages for Microsoft Visual Studio. This download is an add-on...

We are working actively to enhance the expereince of package development for VS Shell Isolated SKU for the VS 2008 V1 VS SDK to be released to target VS 2008 RTM. This will make is easier to add new and existing VSIP packages to a VS Shell SKU. We will...

We announced a new product "Visual Studio Shell" that will be released with Visual Studio 2008. This SKU of Visual Studio will be available to VSIP partners when Visual Studio 2008 BETA 2 ships. The Shell comes in 2 flavors: Integrated and Isolated...

The VS SDK team released the latest VS SDK targeting Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 last week . You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1C99A9C8-ADFC-4DE6-8B9E-2A5C6B540332&displaylang=en . This SDK exposes...

Today I want to talk about RANU for Package development. RANU stands for Run as Normal user. In Orcas VS SDK, we are providing package developers the ability to create packages as a normal user. Package developers do not need to be administrators on the...

On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, I am pleased to announce that after months of hard work, VS SDK 4.0 has been released! This is the last SDK release planned for Visual Studio 2005. The team has done a ton of work to make this release friendly...