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VSX Conference Day 1

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 8:58 PM by Quan
Our annual VSX Conference started today, the same day we officially announced and launched Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. For those who have an MSDN subscription, you can download VS 2010 Beta 2 right now. If you don't have a subscription, the Microsoft download Read More...
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Extension Manager Intro Video

Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:57 PM by Quan
I just put together a quick intro to the extension manager. Consider it my 1 minute elevator pitch of what the extension manager is and what you can do with it. Check it out on Channel 9 at: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/cgranger/The-VS2010-Extension-Manager Read More...
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Visual Studio Gallery Updates

Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 9:49 PM by Quan
Our Visual Studio Gallery just got an update today with some small changes since our initial Beta 1 release a few weeks ago. Steven Wilssens, our main PM working on the gallery sums up the changes below: Feature Highlights · Referrals Count – During our Read More...
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How do I deploy a Toolbox Control as a VSIX?

Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 2:53 PM by Quan
Several partners have asked me how they can package up their Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox Controls as a VSIX and deploy it on the Visual Studio Gallery. In the past, we had a Toolbox Control Installer (TCI) which shipped as an MSM in the Visual Studio SDK. Read More...
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Channel 9 talks about Extensibility and VS 2010 Beta 1

Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:42 PM by Quan
I just got forwarded this Channel 9 video posted a couple of weeks ago: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-VS-2010-Beta-1-Windows-API-Code-Pack--a-WPF-Jukebox/ Dan and Brian talk about several new VS 2010 Beta 1 features Read More...
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Why isn't there a 64 bit version of Visual Studio?

Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:43 AM by Quan
Our Visual Studio Chief Architect, Rico Mariani, wrote up a great blog about why we haven't moved to a 64 bit version of Visual Studio. I've been asked this several times from partners and customers and I've gotten different responses asking the same Read More...
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Building and publishing a Visual Studio 2010 extension walkthrough

Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:50 PM by Quan
It's always great to see your General Manager excited about a feature you worked on. It's nice to see him mention it in his blog. It's even better when he sits down and writes an entire blog post about your feature! I demo'ed the Extension Manager and Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 installer crashes when I click on "Next"

Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 10:25 PM by Quan
I updated our Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK readme a few days ago but I wanted to call this out in case someone else ran into this and needed a workaround. Problem: When I try installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK, it crashes when I click Next during Read More...
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Integrated and Isolated Shell for VS 2010 Beta 1

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:13 AM by Quan
We quietly shipped the Visual Studio Integrated and Isolated Shells when Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 was released. The shells are still work in progress as we made some changes since VS 2008 SP1. Both shells will have all the new goodness that came with Read More...
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What is a VSIX?

Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:59 PM by Quan
The VSIX file is the unit of deployment for a Visual Studio 2010 Extension. Visual Studio will recognize the VSIX extension and install the contents of the file to the right location. A VSIX file is a zip file that uses the Open Packaging Convention . Read More...
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5 Reasons to learn about extending VS 2010

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 12:28 PM by Quan
One of our Visual Studio Extensibility MVPs just put together a great blog about why you should learn about VS 2010 Extensibility. Check out Istvan Novak's blog at: Five Reasons to Learn VS 2010 Extensibility As a side note, there have been a lot of other Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Extensibility Forum

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 4:48 PM by Quan
If you have any Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 extensibility questions with the Extension Manager, VSIX, pkgdef files, moving extensions to VS 2010, SDK, or anything related to extending Visual Studio, you can post your questions at our Beta 1 Extensibility Read More...
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Reference Assistant for Visual Studio 2010

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:27 PM by Quan
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the Reference Assistant extension for Visual Studio in my blog . I've been working closely with Darren Stokes to produce a Visual Studio 2010 version. Darren was quickly able to put together a VS 2010 version of his product Read More...
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First few VS 2010 extensions are now available

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:30 PM by Quan
One of our Editor Developers (Noah Richards) has uploaded the first and second Visual Studio extension on the new Visual Studio Gallery . The two extensions are a Wiki Classifier that shows .mwiki files in a nice easily readable format inside the VS Editor Read More...
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Visual Studio 2010 Resharper Extension (coming soon)!!

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 6:49 PM by Quan
It looks like the guys over in Jetbrains are starting to work on their Visual Studio 2010 Resharper extension! http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2009/05/preview-of-resharper-for-visual-studio-2010-coming-soon/ As a huge fan of Resharper, I can't wait Read More...
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