James @ MS

My colleague Aaron Marten beat me to blogging about our release, but I am just as happy talking about it. In this release, we present you with the following: Toolbox Installer Package - this is a redistributable package designed to simply deployment...

VSIP Partners! Have you registered for the November VSIP Dev Labs yet? The Visul Studio Ecosystem team will be hosting VSIP Developer Labs from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1 on main campus in Redmond. The opportunity to attend VSIP Developer Labs is one of the...

If you extend Visual Studio, either through add-ins or VS Packages, you should download VS SP1 Beta to make sure your extensions continue to work. We plan to ship the final Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 later this year, and you will want to make sure...

With the release of VS SDK 3.0 a couple of weeks ago, we are starting to look seriously into the enthusiast space for VS Extensibility. We have posted the SDK on a publicly downloadable site so developers don't need to join the VSIP program before downloading...

In case you didn't notice, Soma blogged about our team's collaboration with QUT on delivering the MPPG/MPLex tools in our VS SDK 3.0 release. Soma highlighted these tools as a great example of Microsoft's collaboration with the academia, and we will continue...

I forgot to mention that shortly after our team shipped VS SDK 3.0, our team got a new mascot. The good folks on the marketing team was kind enough to give us our new team mascot after our team bowling event... SUSAN! Here is a picture of Susan sitting...

We have just completed the planning for VS SDK 4.0 last week. My good dev lead has posted the plans on his blog . I would encourage you to take a look at it and see if you have any feedback for us. Having completed the 4.0 planning, I have been occupied...