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My name is Pedro Silva. I’m the development lead in the Visual Studio Platform team at Microsoft, working on VS Extensibility features, enabling VS extensions and the VS SDK.

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Aaron Posts on VSIX Project and pkgdef Files

Aaron (one of the developers on my team working on the SDK) just wrote a couple of great posts for folks wishing to use and to understand how the SDK works for VS 2010 Beta 1. Definitely worth a read if you're working on VS extensions:

VSIX Project template - The VSIX Project is meant to be a very simple project template that is used for building a raw VSIX “bundle” (i.e. the zip container).
How PkgDef files (for portable registration) work with the Experimental Instance in the SDK.