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Development lead on Visual Studio Platform team focusing on the extensibility of Visual Studio.

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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.

The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.

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New Project templates of VS-MEF integration
Pablo Galiano has just published two you project template extensions for the Visual Studio Gallery , both of them for doing MEF integration with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Check them out: Template for creating a VS Package that exposes MEF extension points. Read More...

Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 1:55 PM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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MPF for Projects released for VS 2010 Beta 1
Chuck England has just recently posted the sources for MPF for Projects on CodePlex . If you're interested in creating your own project systems for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, this is the place to start. And, for those of you wishing to port your project Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:29 PM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:51 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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Quick Tutorial on Building Extensions with the VS SDK
It's pretty cool when you General Manager is out working with the bits you just released. Jason just released a quick tutorial on how to create an editor extension using the VS SDK . Check out the steps he went through to create, build, test, and deploy Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:59 PM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

Windows 7 RC is out
The Windows 7 Release Candidate just came out yesterday . I've been using builds of Win7 on my laptop since the Beta and have been very happy with how it works... Can't wait to get the RC installed on my laptop, will try to do it early next week. Read More...

Posted Friday, May 01, 2009 9:18 AM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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Low Bandwidth MSDN Pages
I just read over on Scott Hanselman's blog that there's a new low bandwidth view of MSDN pages . This is definitely cool and a much quicker way to load help content from MSDN. Check out this topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode(loband).aspx Read More...

Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 9:54 AM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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An old friend talking about Perf
I was just reading over some blogs and ran across a couple of interesting topics on usage and perf on an Immutable Collection in the .NET runtime. Turns out to have been written by an old friend and collegue - Jared . He's always written about some interesting Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:14 PM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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