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August 2007 - Posts

VS 2008 SDK August CTP released!
Our team just released the VS 2008 SDK August CTP late yesterday. This is very similar to the July CTP that we posted a week ago, but with some very small, targeted bug fixes that address two of the three key issues I brought up in my previous post in Read More...
How to build a package for VS Shell
I said I would follow up with a post on how to build a VS Package that targets the VS Shell, so here it is. Creating a VSPackage for the isolated Shell is a little different than the other two scenarios because you will also need to create your own stub Read More...
VS Shell Customization Points
Following up on my last post about VS Shell workarounds with the current VS SDK, I wanted to make a post about the customizations that you can do with the VS Shell. Most of these are done through the <projectname>.pkdef file that gets generated Read More...
Building VS Shell with VS 2008 SDK July CTP
Since we shipped the VS SDK July CTP a couple of days ago, we have discovered a couple of issues that makes building your own VS Shell not as easy as we had hoped. I wanted to document all these issues and the workarounds here to unblock anyone who is Read More...
Important workaround for VS 2008 SDK July CTP for building VS Shell!
Yesterday, we released the VS 2008 SDK that targets the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio. You can read all the details on our team blog . One of the most exciting things about this release is the ability for customers to build the VS Shell (isolated mode). Read More...
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