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After 11 1/2 years, I have decided that I need to take a little time away from work and will be leaving Microsoft. So on November 9th I will be walking out those Microsoft doors for the last time. You can read more about this on my personal web site at
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I have been asked a few times why, when you run our wizard, we generate C++ code and not C# or VB. Some have even tried creating a C# or VB stub exe only to find errors when their program is run. Why does this happen? A file that is put into the GAC when
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Since Got Dot Net was closed down, I have not uploaded the power toys to a new location. I have received a few mail messages asking where they can be found so I thought I would try out the new SkyDrive service, and uploaded it there. You can download
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Before getting into how this new Visual Studio Shell Isolated (let’s call it VSSI for short) thing works, I thought I would go into some background of how Visual Studio works, so you can better understand how your program will work. When you click on
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I have not been making too many posts here, mostly because I have had my head down working on some new, secret tools for the past few months. Now I can talk about them because today at TechEd we announced what that new tool is, Visual Studio Shell Isolated.
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One complaint that we have received about creating Add-ins is about the .addin file. Specifically, why are there two of them? If you move the project file, check into source code control, etc. then the file no longer works or disappears. To make this
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For the past few years, Carlos Quintero has been the MVP working with the automation model. Last night we finally got to meet over dinner for the first time during the Microsoft MVP Summit. I would like to take this time to thank Carlos for all his hard
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Samples and tools are a big part of the VS SDK, but what we decide are good samples and tools are not always what you need. So here is your chance to let us know what you would like to see. Always feel free to send us mail directly if you do have a suggestion,
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If you have not noticed I have not posted to this blog in a while. There are many reasons for this, a few of which led me to decide to leave my current position in Visual Studio. For the past year I have not done much with extensibility and instead have
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I know it has been a while, but I just wanted to drop a note that our latest book, Working With Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 , is now available in paperback. If you need a copy, you can pick one up from places such as Buy.com , Amazon , etc.
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The Seattle Seahawks are in the super bowl, I am happy that they are going. But there is one small problem – I am a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. I moved to Seattle almost 10 years ago, and before my move I was born and lived about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.
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It has been confirmed by a few MSDN subscribers that you can download our book, Working With Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. I have not tried it myself, but it is supposed to be in PDF format. Just click on the Help | Register Product menu item to begin
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You can now download the automation samples for Visual Studio 2005 at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/code/automation/default.aspx . This package includes samples updated to use the new VS 2005 .addin mechanism, new samples for 2005, and many
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I have upload the source code for the Visual IL language service and project to http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/visualil . There are a few restrictions that I put on downloading the source code, mostly because I am planning on writing a new book on the
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For a while now, people have been asking me how to create Satellite DLLs for their Add-ins. My response was always to create your .resx file for each culture, run resgen from a command prompt to create the .resources file, then run al to create the DLL.
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