VSX Team Blog

Deepankar Dubey (Engineering Lead) and Gearard Boland (Software Engineer) on the Microsoft Visual Studio Ecosystem team discuss with Ken Levy the newly released VB Pack for the VS 2005 SDK and our plans for additional VB support in the upcoming final...

The Visual Basic Pack for Visual Studio 2005 SDK download provides the SDK samples converted in the Visual Basic language and a new wizard that is used for generating Visual Basic based integration Packages for Microsoft Visual Studio. This download is...

This month's letter includes information about what the VS SDK team has been working on in the past month, what's new on team blogs, VSX community news, upcoming event news, and a preview of what's coming next month. VB Support added to the VS SDK! The...

This is the second monthly letter to the VSX community from the VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) team at Microsoft posted on the VSX Team Blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam ). This month's letter includes information about what the VS SDK team has...

The VSX team has just released the VS SDK August 2007 CTP and is now available for download for building extensions with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 . Details about what's new in the VS SDK August 2007 CTP can be found in the blog post from last month on...

Note: If you are using this release to do VS Shell development, please see the important workaround posted on James's blog here . The VSX team has just released the VS SDK July 2007 CTP and is now available for download for building extensions with...

VSX, a shortcut name for Visual Studio Extensibility, represents the VSX community which is a virtual and growing ecosystem that includes the VS SDK, all aspects of extending VS (packages, add-ins, macros, visualizers), .NET developers who extend VS,...

This is the first monthly letter to the VSX community from the VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) team at Microsoft. In case you are new here to the VSX Team Blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam ), the VSX team is also known as the Visual Studio Tools...

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...

Momentum Webcast: Do-It-Yourself Tools Inside Visual Studio (Level 100) The Microsoft Visual Studio development system includes a great set of built-in development tools. But if Visual Studio does not have exactly the tool you need, you can always...

As legend has it, Dr. Ex of the VSX team is a resident expert at Microsoft on anything to do with Visual Studio extensibility. No matter if it's about macros, add-ins, packages, etc. using the VS SDK , the mad doctor will attempt to address these issues...

In this VSX team video, Ken Levy talks to Craig Skibo talks his long history working on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft. Included in the chat is a brief history about the early efforts of creating extensibility for the first version of Visual Studio...

James Lau posted the details about the new VS SDK for Orcas Beta 1 (April CTP) download that went live online today. In the spirit of getting this new VSX Team blog started, here's a short video post to Soapbox on MSN Video . The video was recorded to...

Welcome to the VSX Team blog. The VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) team is also known as the Visual Studio Tools Ecosystem team at Microsoft. While many of the VSX team members have their own blog, we wanted to have a team blog for general posts representing...