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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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Visual Studio 2010 SDK for Beta 2 Now Available!
The Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 SDK is now available for everyone to use from the Download Center. So, install it (it's quick), and start building you very own extensions to Visual Studio today! And once you have those extensions ready to share with world, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:36 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Available
We announced today the availability of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 on MSDN . Later this week, on Wednesday, it will generally be available for everyone from the Download Center. There has been a ton of work, performance improvements, and bug fixing Read More...

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 3:40 PM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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The DSL Beta1 SDK is out!
Well lots of announcements this week with the VS Beta coming out... so here's one more: The Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1 is available for download! This one is near and dear to me because I've worked on DSL Tools in the past, and it's wonderful to Read More...

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 9:24 AM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 Available!
It pays to be in early in the morning... sometimes you get to be the first to announce. :) The Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 is now available for download on MSDN Download Center. This SDK matches the Visual Studio 2010 Beta, that was released earlier Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:59 AM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

Visual Studio 10 Beta1 Available!
The Visual Studio 10 Beta1 is generally available today from MSDN's Download Center... get it while it's hot! You can either download the Pro or TeamSystem editions. And, in this Beta1, we're showing off some new features for the VS extender community Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:20 AM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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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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Introducing VS Extension Manager
In case you missed it, Jason Zander posted a while back about the Visual Studio 2010 new look . In that post, were the first looks at the Visual Studio Extension Manager. This is a user experience that lets you find extensions to Visual Studio that have Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 7:26 PM by PedroSilva | 4 Comments

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DSL Tools Forum Moved
In case you're looking for the DSL Tools forum and can't find it at its last location, it has moved into the VSX (stands for Visual Studio Extensibility :) forum, so you can ask your DSL-related questions there. And, here's the new link: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=57&SiteID=1 Read More...

Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 9:05 AM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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SkyDrive Beta Today
The latest Windows Live service just went into Beta this morning - SkyDrive . SkyDrive is a hard drive in the cloud that lets you save personal files out on the web. Along with private folders that only you can access, it also lets you create shared folders Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:27 AM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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Developer.com .NET Tool of the Year
I just read an article on Developer.com that Visual Studio 2005 was named the .NET Tool of the Year . Having spent 3+ years working on the designers for VS 2005, it's nice to see that people have taken such a liking to the overall product. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:29 PM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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BillG, That's The End Calling...
I've been patiently watching and listening to a campaign run by a local radio station ( 107.7 The End ) to get Bill Gates on their show for an interview and their music challenge (where they face-off two local celebrities to pick their best song to play Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:34 AM by PedroSilva | 5 Comments

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RSS Bandit 1.3.0.38 Released
I'm back from a Thanksgiving vacation, where I didn't rest enough and ate too much. Oh well, what do you expect from Thanksgiving... Dare has just released a new version of RSS Bandit . For those of you who haven't tried RSS Bandit, it's an open source, Read More...

Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 3:22 PM by PedroSilva | 0 Comments

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TechEd 2005 - Day 0
Sunday was my travel day. I left Seattle at 7:30 am on my way to Atlanta and then on to Orlando. The layover was exciting because I only had about 45 minutes between flights. It was made even more exciting because we landed 30 minutes late. After a nice Read More...

Posted Monday, June 06, 2005 12:02 PM by PedroSilva | 2 Comments

Free Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 CDs
It appears that you can request CDs/DVDs of the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 from MSDN [via CoolThingoftheDay ], even if you're not an MSDN Universal subscriber. The CDs are free and the so is the shipping (in the US or Canada) -- cool. This is a great way Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:30 PM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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