February 2008 - Posts

If you're a student, get Visual Studio Pro for free
If you're a student, then Microsoft has just announced a new program called DreamSpark to get Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition (and Expression Studio and Windows Server 2003 and XNA Game Studio and SQL Server 2005) for free. As Aaron points out Read More...
Posted 20 February 08 11:13 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
More rapid deployment of VS extensions
Over on Deep's blog I came across the following comment to his post on Tools for Tools . I had looked at creating a DSL for one of our projects a while ago, and in the end decided against it because the deployment was too complicated. In particular, here Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 11:50 by Stuart Kent | 5 Comments   
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Book on VS Extensibility
I've just seen in the VSX newsletter that there is a book on Visual Studio Extensibility soon to be published. Details on http://nayyeri.net/ . Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 10:56 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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Quan started blogging about VSX
Quan is a new (and, I should say, very productive) PM on the VS Ecosystem Team. He's now started blogging about VSX stuff, and good posts there are too. If your new to VSX then the following post might help you get into it. He's included both VB and C# Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 01:19 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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Great links from Gareth
Gareth is obviously settled in the US now, because he's starting to become a prolific blog poster again. Unlike me, who only manages it in spurts. He's recently put up a series of posts with some great links. So for those of you who don't already read Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 01:07 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
Great posting on distributed development
One of my colleagues (thanks Blair) pointed me at this: http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_brechner/archive/2008/02/01/so-far-away-distributed-development.aspx Our team is distributed between the US and UK and many of the points mentioned ring true in our experience. Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 12:32 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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