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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:21 AM

Dr. eX has moved to the VSX Team Blog

This blog is now archived. Dr. eX, resident expert on anything to do with VSX, now posts on the VSX Team Blog tagged Dr. eX .
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:03 PM

Using IVsProfferCommands to retrieve a Visual Studio CommandBar

If you are an add-in developer, you are probably familiar with adding menu items and toolbar buttons to the Visual Studio environment. In most instances add-in developers take their cue from the code generated by the Visual Studio Add-in Project Wizard.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:06 PM

Using EnableVSIPLogging to identify menus and commands with VS 2005 + SP1

One of the most frequently asked questions related to Visual Studio Package and Add-in development concerns how to add additional menus and commands to a specific dropdown or context menu in the Visual Studio IDE. Adding the menu or command is the easy
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Friday, February 23, 2007 7:53 PM

Visual Studio Extensibility Forum FAQ Lite

What? No email link to talk to the Doctor directly. Yes that is true the email link has been removed from the blog. Dr. Ex and his assistants recommend use of Visual Studio Extensibility Forum instead. Your questions get exposed to a broader audience
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Monday, January 22, 2007 10:11 PM

Where can I get assistance with my Visual Studio Extensibility issues?

Occasionally, Dr. Ex and his associates are asked where developers can get assistance with issues related to the Visual Studio SDK, and Add-in development. In actuality, there are a number of support options available for customers with questions and/or
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 4:45 PM

Debugging Package Load Failures

You can just picture the situation. You've coded up your package and tested it out on your development machine. You've even managed to get a setup project together. Everything is working just as expected, but when you run your setup on another machine,
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:59 PM

Visual Studio Extensibility Demystified

Since we have placed the VS 2005 SDK 3.0 on the Microsoft Download Center in September, we have seen a lot of developers downloading the SDK. The developers who are using the SDK now are no longer just developers who build commercial VSIP products. Users
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Friday, October 27, 2006 7:19 PM

Visual Studio SDK 4.0 November 2006 CTP is released!!

Guess what the November 2006 CTP version of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4 has been released. You can get this release by signing into www.vsipmembers.com . One of the major themes for this release has been to serve our Control vendors who would
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Friday, October 13, 2006 4:19 PM

Smells like VSIP…

Smells like VSIP … For a change of pace, I thought I would spend a little time talking about the VSIP Program and opportunities all the VS extenders out there might be interested in. VSIP stands for V isual S tudio I ndustry P artner. It’s a program that
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Friday, September 15, 2006 2:15 PM

From VSIP Diaries...

As many of you must have observed that you can associate a custom tool with a project item using CustomTool property in properties window. So the question is how do you accomplish this, without any user interaction, for project items added via 'Add New
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Friday, September 15, 2006 12:59 PM

Visual Studio 2005 SDK V3 Released

Visual Studio 2005 SDK V3 is released! It is available for download on the VSIP member site . Did I tell you that now you can also download it directly from MSDN ? Below are some new features included in this release: DSL Tools V1 RTM IronPython web site
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:11 PM

From VSIP Diaries...

The Editor Factory implementations, in MPF based VS SDK editor sample and wizard generated code, improperly construct the ServiceProvider members. This causes calls to GetService to give back unexpected results. For e.g if you ask for SVsFrameWindow service
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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:02 PM

From VSIP Diaries...

The April v2 RTM is the next milestone in the VS 2005 SDK. This RTM release contains updated VS Integration sample and documentation content, including updates to the IronPython end-end integration sample with Winform designer integration, updated C#
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Monday, March 20, 2006 4:43 PM

From VSIP Diaries....

How is it going guys?? Well yet another simple question came my way recently. It was about how do you control what appears in the tool window tab name when it is tabbed to other tool windows. The Solution Explorer tool window , for example, shows long
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Monday, December 26, 2005 4:43 PM

From VSIP Diaries....

Wish you all VS extenders a belated Merry Christmas. As usual I am a little late and my apologies for that. I hope you had a merry Christmas and a great time with your family and friends. I had a great time too. However, I will remember this season for
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