As part of the various ongoing VSX community efforts, we decided to create a cool graphic logo for VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility). We hired a graphics designer, Gregor Jamroski, and he created the VSX logo here. We plan to use the VSX logo with things...

Craig Skibo , developer on the Visual Studio Tools Ecosystem team, talks technical to Ken Levy about the the new Visual Studio 2008 Shell. Discussion includes how to use the VS SDK with VS to build applications (integrated or isolated) for the new free...

Catherine Crim, product manager on the Platform and Tools Ecosystem marketing team, talks to Ken Levy about strategy and opportunities around the recently announced free Visual Studio 2008 Shell . Video: Catherine Crim talks about the Visual Studio...

At TechEd 2007, Gareth Jones of the Microsoft DSL Tools team talks about DSL (Domain-Specific Language Tools) in the video clip below, interviewed by Ken Levy . Domain-Specific Language Tools allow Visual Studio 2005 developers to create their own graphical...

The video A Closer Look at the Visual Studio Shell was posted earlier this week on the http://virtualteched.com/ site. In this interview, Microsoft group product manager Joe Marini discusses the newly announced Visual Studio 2008 Shell . Also in the video...

If you create software development tools, you’ll want to consider building on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell. A streamlined Visual Studio development environment, the Visual Studio Shell provides the core foundation so you can focus on your application...

Transparency with the community and getting feedback from our customers have always been very important to our team. As such, we would like to share our current thinking on the roadmap for future releases of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK. We begin here with...

The VSX team has just released VS SDK Orcas June 2007 CTP and is now available for download. This CTP must be installed together with Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 . Orcas is the code name for Visual Studio 2008. What's New since the previous version of...