TechEd Day One - Visual Studio 2008 Shell

Just woken up after a great first day at Tech-Ed.  Excellent to see full houses and folks crammed in around the floor for the chalk talks on both Software Factories and Visual Studio Extensibility.

Also fantastic to finally get my hands on a paper copy of our book - makes all the tiring weekends seem worthwhile!

Today's really exiting news for DSLers as announced by Ken over on the VSX blog is the Visual Studio 2008 Shell. 

Our team's number one customer request has been to allow DSLs to be deployed in more flexible scenarios than just regular Visual Studio installations, especially to support folks being part of the design process who wouldn't as yet have been typical VS customers.

We very much hope that the new deployment options offered by the Visual Studio 2008 Shell will go a long way to addressing that customer need.

Published 05 June 07 01:25 by GarethJ

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# thomas said on June 6, 2007 4:18 PM:

DSL Tools are what I dreamed of for years while writing on an application where I wrote designers myself. While waiting for "the" book to be shipped I read the Shell announcement. Wooooow! That is way cool cool cool! Extremely supercool!

One thing I would like to place: I am implementing a tool base on DSL that also benefits from Team Foundation, something like architects storing project histories from early drafts to final plans in tfs and utilize the workitem feature. It would be finyfine if this would also be included in the Shell. And this will be my last wiill, dont bother you afterwards.

Phantastic, Phantastic, Phantastic !!!!

Enjoy tech-ed

# Paul said on June 7, 2007 8:23 AM:

I second thomas' question: can VS 2008 Shell support TFS? And what is the relationship between VS 2008 Shell and Team Foundation Explorer, the shell-like version of VS 2005 that comes with TFS? I'm very excited about the prospect of building NON-developer-tools aps using both.

I think it's possible that, two or three years from now, Microsoft will look back on this fairly obscure VS introduction and see it as the dawn of a major new product (platform) that isn't limited to the company's Developer Tools division at all.

Very welcome news for me personally. Kudos and thanks.

# Steve Cook's WebLog said on June 7, 2007 1:01 PM:

There are some short video interviews about the new VS 2008 Shell at the VSX team blog . This is going

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