Quan To's Visual Studio Extensibility blog

I normally don't make a big deal out of localized languages shipping but this one's special. We've been working on it for a long time (since I was still on the VS Setup team) so it's great to see this come to life and finally be released to customers...

The build process in the developer division builds symbols for all our binaries on a daily basis. Once we ship, we have a process that publishes those symbols to the online Microsoft Symbol Server to enable developers to debug into parts of Visual Studio...

We're picking up a lot of mometum with the Visual Studio 2008 SDK. We have over 170,000 downloads of the Visual Studio SDK 1.0 and 1.1. In comparison, the Visual Studio 2005 4.0 SDK has been around for a few years now and we've just passed half of its...