Pedro Silva's Blog
Development lead on Visual Studio Platform team focusing on the extensibility of Visual Studio.
Microsoft just recently released the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack for Visual Studio 2010...
Date: 06/18/2010
We've just released the new Pro Power Tools which is a collection of useful extensions to make your...
Date: 06/11/2010
Now that Visual Studio 2010 is available, it would be great to get more feedback on the new...
Date: 06/02/2010
Chris wrote a nice review of the VS2010 Extension Manager feature at TechRepublic. Having worked on...
Date: 06/01/2010
Have you ever created a VS Package, tried to run it in Visual Studio only to get the infamous...
Date: 05/27/2010
I've been working on a custom start page sample that creates a new tab on the typical Visual Studio...
Date: 05/05/2010
For all of you fans of the Power Commands extension, Lance, from our team, just updated this...
Date: 05/04/2010
For the sample extension that I'm working on, I wanted to have the ability to launch a URL in Visual...
Date: 04/26/2010
When working with Visual Studio extensibility, getting a ServiceProvider is the main way to find and...
Date: 04/21/2010
For those that have seen Visual Studio 2010, there is a fancy new start page that is much more...
Date: 04/19/2010
After 2+ years in development, Visual Studio 2010 became generally available today. Also available...
Date: 04/12/2010
Today is the general release for the Visual Studio 2010 RC. There's been a lot of performance work...
Date: 02/10/2010
This is a new tool that will make creation and packaging of project and item templates a whole lot...
Date: 01/18/2010
I was just looking through some new extensions on the Visuals Studio Gallery for VS2010 Beta 2 and...
Date: 11/06/2009
The Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 SDK is now available for everyone to use from the Download Center. So,...
Date: 10/21/2009
We announced today the availability of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 on MSDN. Later this week, on...
Date: 10/19/2009
Jared just released a cool new editor extension for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 to provide Vim editor...
Date: 09/09/2009
ScottGu recently posted about the new online templates feature of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta1. The...
Date: 08/28/2009
Pablo Galiano has just published two you project template extensions for the Visual Studio Gallery,...
Date: 07/13/2009
Chuck England has just recently posted the sources for MPF for Projects on CodePlex. If you're...
Date: 07/09/2009
For those of you trying out Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, you may have already noticed... But, Visual...
Date: 06/19/2009
I recently posted an update the the WPF AboutBox (CS) extension (v 0.4) on the VS Gallery. You can...
Date: 06/10/2009
Aaron (one of the developers on my team working on the SDK) just wrote a couple of great posts for...
Date: 06/09/2009
There are a couple of other ways to create project/item template extensions besides using the VSIX...
Date: 06/08/2009
The VSIX file we created in Part 2 is the new unit of deployment for extension in Visual Studio...
Date: 06/07/2009
Now, that we have a zipped up item template (from Part 1), how do we get this thing ready for the VS...
Date: 06/04/2009
I’ve put together a WPF AboutBox item template and released it on the Visual Studio Gallery. It’s...
Date: 06/03/2009
It's pretty cool when you General Manager is out working with the bits you just released. Jason just...
Date: 06/02/2009
I just created an new Item Template for the WPF AboutBox that I've been discussing in this blog. The...
Date: 05/28/2009
Well lots of announcements this week with the VS Beta coming out... so here's one more: The Visual...
Date: 05/22/2009
Well for the first couple of days of being out, we've been getting some good usage and feedback of...
Date: 05/21/2009
It pays to be in early in the morning... sometimes you get to be the first to announce. :) The...
Date: 05/21/2009
The Visual Studio 10 Beta1 is generally available today from MSDN's Download Center... get it while...
Date: 05/20/2009
Well if JasonZ can blog about it, I suppose that means I can too. :) He talks about some changes in...
Date: 05/14/2009
I wanted to make an AboutBox that is as easy to use as the one that comes with Winforms. But, I also...
Date: 05/08/2009
I've been testing out some of the different possibilities in WPF with a sample AboutBox -- every...
Date: 05/06/2009
It’s pretty easy to set up an XmlDataProvider as a resource in your WPF application. This lets you...
Date: 05/04/2009
The Windows 7 Release Candidate just came out yesterday. I've been using builds of Win7 on my laptop...
Date: 05/01/2009
Well, I tried using a prettier stylesheet layout for my blog, but it's not very good at should code....
Date: 04/29/2009
I’m continuing to work through learning more about WPF and XAML. I was trying a simple dialog and...
Date: 04/27/2009
Apparently there's quite an upheaval over the Comic Sans typeface... with folks even wishing to ban...
Date: 04/22/2009
I just read over on Scott Hanselman's blog that there's a new low bandwidth view of MSDN pages. This...
Date: 04/20/2009
WPF doesn't have a built in LinkLabel control as you'd find in WinForms. But, I have found a couple...
Date: 04/17/2009
I was just reading over some blogs and ran across a couple of interesting topics on usage and perf...
Date: 04/15/2009
I'm finally starting down the path of learning WPF (yes, I know that I'm a little late to the party...
Date: 04/14/2009
Had a really good week talking with a lot of customers at our VSIP clinic. Met a lot of the folks...
Date: 04/10/2009
There's a VSIP Developer Clinic here in Redmond next week (Mon-Wed). I'll be attending and looking...
Date: 04/03/2009
In case you missed it, Jason Zander posted a while back about the Visual Studio 2010 new look. In...
Date: 04/02/2009
The folks at Clarius have an update to their T4 template editor. They're now in Beta. It's a very...
Date: 10/18/2007