We have just posted the VS SDK v3, August CTP release on http://www.vsipmembers.com. Two major items are:

• MPLEX/MPPG - this stands for Managed Package Lexar and Managed Package Parser Generator. These are essentially counterparts for FLEX/Bison for managed languages. If you are implementing a language service inside Visual Studio, these tools will be tremendously helpful.
• IronPython Websites/Web projects - we continue to make improvements on this sample to show to integrate your own dynamic language inside Visual Studio with ASP.net.

We have added a lot of power toys in this release, including the following:

• Source Outliner - a super cool tool window that allows you to navigate between code elements in your source code file.
• C++ Snippet - enough said. Finally - snippets for C++ =)
• Extensibility Explorer - this is both a sample and a power toy. You can use it to explore VS-related registration in the registry. It demonstrates how to implement a UI Hierarchy in C++.

We have also added more samples:

• RDT Explorer - captures and reports on events fired by the Running Document Table.
• Extensibility Explorer - this is already discussed above.
• Doc View Editor - this is an old sample that we cleaned up and brought back to life. It shows how to implement an editor that handles a certain file extensions and can have multiple views associated with it (i.e. design view/code view).

Kudos to the test team for this release, as many of our team members are OOF for the summer and we had to cover for one another to do final test pass and test analysis.

I hope you will enjoy using this release. Feel free to give us feedback right on this blog.