VSX Team Blog

We aren’t going away -- we’re just moving to a better home. To give you even more news, articles, and walkthroughs on Visual Studio, the VSX Team blog is moving to become part of The Visual Studio Blog .  As part of The Visual Studio Blog , we’ll...

The Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 bits went live this morning for everyone! You can get access to all our Beta 2 products from the following website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx The SDK is also available from that location...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 just released moments ago! After taking a lot of feedback, suggestions, and fixing a ton of bugs, along with improving the performance, we just released a solid Beta 2. MSDN subscribers will be able to download Beta 2 today...

Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 2 Supplemental Readme The Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Documentation is available here . The DSL Tools for Beta 2 is available here . This posting contains additional readme and known issues about the Visual Studio 2010...

We received a lot of feedback from the community and other developers about the Extension Manager VSIX manifest and made some changes in Beta 2. Some of the changes included: Making the schema less strict so elements don't need to be in a particular...

Chris Granger, one of our Visual Studio Editor Program Managers just posted some more Editor goodies on code gallery. Here’s a quick wrap up of the samples and walkthrough that just got posted: Editor Extension Hands On Lab This lab takes you...

One of the questions we've been getting from developers is, "How do I build a project or item template?" Our Dev lead, Pedro Silva put together four great blogs on how to create, build, and share your template on the Visual Studio Gallery. Creating...

The Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK documentation just got released! You can access it from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb166441(VS.100).aspx There's still a lot more to cover but this set of docs will get you started with what...

The Tangible T4 Editor is now available for VS 2010 Beta 2. Try out the T4 Editor when working with your VS 2010 DSLs. You can download the T4 Editor from the Visual Studio Gallery or look for it in the Extension Manager Online tab.

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1 has just shipped and is available for download! If you're interested in Domain Specific Languages and want to use tools to build your own DSLs, download it and try it out. You will need the Visual Studio...

I'm excited to announce the availability of the Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 ! The Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 provides the tools and templates necessary to build your own extensions to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. The SDK will allow you to create...

My name is Adrian Collier and I am the Program Manager responsible for the Start Page in the Visual Studio. One of the coolest things we can do in this release is to create custom start pages using WPF. This post details how to get up and running with...

We shipped Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1! The Beta 1 bits shipped on MSDN yesterday and will be available for general consumption Wednesday morning. You'll be able to get more information about Visual Studio 2010 and the download locations here our...

A couple of months ago, we unveiled Visual Studio 10 at several conferences and provided attendees a copy of a VPC with Visual Studio 10. We also made the CTP available here . Thanks to a lot of partners, customers, and hobbyists, we got a ton of great...

Happy New Year! Our team blog has been quiet recently mainly with several changes on our team and vacations but we'll all be back January 5th, ready for a new year, and ready to continue making extending Visual Studio easier for all our customers....

We've received feedback that there's sometime not enough or too much information out there for learning how to extend Visual Studio. One of the ways we want to help is to start consolidating a lot of that information and have tutorials and easy starting...

We unveiled a glimpse of the Visual Studio 2010 new features at the Professional Developer's Conference last week. If you were unable to attend, you can download the Visual Studio 2010 Customer Technology Preview from here . The CTP is quite big, it's...

The localization team in Visual Studio have been hard at work adding a new localized language to the suite of languages that Visual Studio Supports. I'm proud to annouce that the Russian edition of Visual Studio has just been released which includes a...

I just got the session info for Tim Wagner's talk at the PDC next week. Tim is our development manager on the VS Platform team. We're all pretty excited about this talk and I promise you won't be disappointed by the content that will be presented. ...

Hi Everyone, Sorry for the delay but the videos from our VSX Developer Conference last month are now up on Channel 9! The session list has direct links to the talk so for those who missed our conference or want to take a second look at the talks, check...

On behalf of the Visual Studio Extensibility team, we want to thank everyone for attending our Visual Studio Extensibility Developer conference. It was an amazing week which went off without a hitch due to a ton of planning and coordination by Anthony...

We are less than a week away from the VSX Developer Conference. We are all geared up for it and we will have a great conference. Ken Levy just made a post on his blog this morning about 10 Reasons to attend the VSX DevCon 2008 . If you have any colleagues...

The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 has been released! Woo hoo!!! We've been spending a lot of time the last few months getting this out the door so we're all pretty excited about this release. The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 compliments the Service Pack...

Yesterday, we posted the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. The download links are below: Downloads Visual Studio 2008 SP1 .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with SP1 Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation...

There are two things that are verified when your VS Shell validates if an add-in can be loaded or not.  The first one is the name of the Shell application and the second one is the version of this application.  Usually, the name of the application...