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This is a bit late in coming, but at the beginning of August I moved from the Ecosystem VS SDK team to the Code Essentials team. The Code Essentials team is the name for the combined Project and Solution, Editor and Navigation, and Source Control Integration
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The VS SDK 2006-08 CTP will include a new Powertoy called the Extensibility Explorer. The Extensiblity Explorer displays that Visual Studio 2005 registry hives (i.e. 8.0 for the regular hive and 8.0Exp for the experimental hive) and all of the packages
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The Visual Studio Package wizard that is part of the VS SDK has been updated for the VS SDK 2006-06 CTP. The update includes: The generated editors now match up to the new Single View Editor reference samples for both C++ and C#. The code generated for
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The VS SDK 2006-06 CTP will include a new sample that demonstrates integrating a SDK into VS (i.e. it's a sample SDK). Thw sample SDK will: Show how to use a property sheet provide to configure a VC project to be aware of a SDK. Show the use of the Help
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Attached to this post is the slidedeck from the VSL Deep Dive presentation I did last Monday at the April VSIP Dev Lab here in Redmond.
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Attachment(s): VSLDeepDive.ppt
C++ sample again proves to be smaller then equivalent C# sample.
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Follows is data I just pulled from the completed reference samples in the VS SDK: Code Lines Comment Lines Characters Semi-colons Functions Feature equivalent C++ Tool Window 828 508 53,858 228 34 C# Tool Window 844 724 63,686 433 49 C++ Menus and Commands
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The design of VSL is guided by the following principles:
- Minimize coupling
- Avoid feature creep
- Exploit the C++ language and the Visual C++ compiler
- Facilitate unit testing
- Re-use without obstruction
- Responsive to requests
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The Visual Studio Library is a C++ source code library whose purpose is to simplify creating a Visual Studio Integration Package.
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As I sit here repeatedly waiting for the unit test for the C++ Single View Editor (the new scrubbed version of BscEdt) to build, I looked back through my blog posts after I joined the VS SDK team last July, and noticed that I've that I haven’t really
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The Visual Studio Platform SDK 2005-12 Community Technical Preview is now available here . Wit this release VSL has been expanded to include mock interfaces for nearly all Visual Studio Platform interfaces . Numerous improvements have been made to the
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The December CTP of the VS SDK, which has not yet available for downloading as of this posting, includes mock interfaces for nearly all Visual Studio Platform interfaces , as well as numerous changes to the VSL infrastructure for mock objects. The changes
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Visual Studio SDK 2005-10 RTM is now available for download at http://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/affiliate/downloadFiles.aspx . This the correct version of the VS SDK to utilize with Visual Studio 2005 RTM . I have also posted a forum topic Official VSL
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In my last post , I said a we should be releasing the VS SDK 2005-10 CTP shortly. We will not be releasing the VS SDK 2005-10 CTP externally, as we just realized that recent changes in files that we pick-up from Visual Studio 2005, have changed such that
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We have nearly completed our September sprint (yes, it's October and we are not done yet, we started out extermely overbooked for the month sprint, and even after extensive cutting, never got caught up). Once complete we will release the VS SDK 2005-10
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