For those of you trying out Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, you may have already noticed... But, Visual Studio 2010 no longer requires you to create Package Load Keys (PLKs) for writing and deploying VSPackage extensions to VS. This will probably come with...

I recently posted an update the the WPF AboutBox (CS) extension (v 0.4) on the VS Gallery. You can find it by launching the Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. If you've already previously installed it, then click on the Updates tab on the...

Aaron (one of the developers on my team working on the SDK) just wrote a couple of great posts for folks wishing to use and to understand how the SDK works for VS 2010 Beta 1. Definitely worth a read if you're working on VS extensions: VSIX Project...

There are a couple of other ways to create project/item template extensions besides using the VSIX Explorer. So, I’m going to give some quick steps here for folks that would like to use an alternative… Just replace Part 2 of my earlier posts with either...

The VSIX file we created in Part 2 is the new unit of deployment for extension in Visual Studio 2010. VS knows how to install these types of extensions, and the VS Gallery is a place where you can host them. Also, the contents of the Gallery are then...

Now, that we have a zipped up item template (from Part 1 ), how do we get this thing ready for the VS Gallery ? All uploads hosted on the Gallery need to be VSIX files. I’m not going to talk much today about the file format (that is a full topic of its...

I’ve put together a WPF AboutBox item template and released it on the Visual Studio Gallery . It’s published there so that you can download, install, and use it through the Extension Manager and New Item dialog in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Now, I’m going...

It's pretty cool when you General Manager is out working with the bits you just released. Jason just released a quick tutorial on how to create an editor extension using the VS SDK . Check out the steps he went through to create, build, test, and deploy...