Developer Support Blog for Visual Studio Extensibility
Your VS Package may not load after porting it to VS 2012
With VS 2010, the IDE recreates the user's 10.0_Config registry hive and remerges menu resources...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 10/08/2012
Sample Browser Extension for Visual Studio 2010/2012
3500+ samples at your fingertips. The new Sample Browser Extension allows you to quickly search,...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 09/07/2012
Visual Studio 2010 Professional Upgrade Pre-Order
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 03/11/2010
How to register existing packages to run under VS 2010 Experimental Instance
Aaron Marten’s blog “Pkgdef and the Experimental Instance in VS 2010” points out that when...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 03/08/2010
How to create a pkgdef file for your Visual Studio Package
The .pkgdef file was first introduced with VS 2008, to allow for easily registering packages...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 03/08/2010
Dissecting VS 2010 Package Registration
While it’s still possible to register your packages, by manually or programmatically adding the...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 03/01/2010
Hotfix posted for VS 2010 RC1 Intellisense crash
On systems where an application or device is actively using UIAutomation (Tablet, Multi-touch, etc),...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 02/16/2010
Problems building VS 2008 SDKSample
Recently, one of our partners had a question pertaining to Help 2.0 integration, and I wanted to use...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 11/12/2009
Replacing the Default Error Dialog in the Isolated Shell
Background: Recently one of our VSIP partners asked if it was possible to customize the default...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 10/14/2009
Macro that tests for proper implementation of AutomationProperties
Background: VSPackages can offer up a set of custom properties for their Tools.Options pages, by...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 10/13/2009
Useful Macros
Background: I always have a difficult time remembering the various properties that can be set on an...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 06/16/2009
How to push F1 context keywords for property pages in the project designer?
Background: IPropertyPage.Help is not invoked on property pages integrated with the Application...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 06/01/2009
How to localize a managed VS Package
Background: Historically, localized resources for Visual Studio packages were located in native...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 05/26/2009
Where can I get assistance with my Visual Studio Extensibility issue?
There are a good number of support options available for developers with questions and/or problems...
Author: Ed Dore Date: 03/19/2009