Register for the (free!) VS Extensibility Summit

VSEditor — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:35:00 GMT

Making extensibility easier and more accessible is one of the VS Platform team’s major goals for Visual Studio 2010. In addition to consulting samples, documentation, and forums, you can now learn about extensibility and have your questions answered in person during Visual Studio Extensibility Days. All developers, both new to extensibility and veteran extenders, are invited to the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit this October, focused on Visual Studio extensibility. Details:

Who: You! VSX Days are free and open to any and all developers interested in extensibility. We’ll be there too – members of the VS Platform team and other product teams will be available to answer your questions.

What: Each day will have two tracks and include content for both new and experienced extenders. We’ll present on a broad range of VS Extensibility topics, including talks on the new editor, the new shell, TFS, VSTS, the VS SDK, and more. And there will be plenty of time for Q&A.

When: October 19-23. The 19^th & 20^th are VS Extensibility days, free and open to the public. Events on the 21^st-23^rd are private and available to our VSIP and Inner Circle partners and insiders only; for more information on the VSIP program, click here.

Where: The Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, WA.

Why: To learn about Visual Studio extensibility, of course!

How: Online registration is open now. If you are a VSIP or Inner Circle program member, please visit www.mstoolspartners.com to register for this event.

You can also visit the official VS Extensibility Summit site for the full event description, registration, location details, and organizer contact information. Hope to see you in Redmond soon!

Brittany Behrens
Program Manager, VS Platform Team

A New Editor for Visual Studio

VSEditor — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:10:00 GMT

Today at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona Spain, Jason Zander demonstrated a ton of new features that are part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0 release. One of the key features that was well received by the audience was the New Editor for Visual Studio. In his demo, Jason showed how the New Editor built on top of Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) enables developers to extend the editor by showing several fun editor extensions.

The first editor extension shown was actually provided by one of our VSIP Partners, DevExpress. They've been working with the Visual Studio 2010 CTP over the last few weeks to provide a custom comment & image viewer inside of the Editor which demo was used to display a sequence diagram inside the code file.

The next sample extension was the "Method History Pop-up". It made use of Adornments to color code each line depending on the last developer who had touched the line and used WPF to provide a graphical animated representation of the code churn over time.

One common request that I get is for the ability to view the history of a file. With the "Micro-V" extension, Jason showed a slider at the top of the editor which switched on a historical mode that allowed him to go back and view the editing history of the file with an inline diff.

The document map margin provides an zoomed out view of the code editor which allows users to quickly navigate to important landmarks in their code. This extension to the editor demonstrated extensible margins which allow developers to add views to the side or above & below the editor.

Jason also invoked up an XML Comment Adornment which replaced existing XML comments with a much easier to read view over the comments. This was yet another example of how adornments to the code can change the way developers read & modify their code.

If you're curious about the New Editor in Visual Studio or you want to try to write your own extensions, I'd recommend downloading the "Visual Studio 2010 CTP here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814

Sean Laberee

Lead Program Manager

VS Platform Team

Visual Studio Editor Blog : VSIP

Register for the (free!) VS Extensibility Summit

A New Editor for Visual Studio