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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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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