June 2008 - Posts

VSX Survey (Fall 2007) results
Below are the key results from the VSX survey from the fall of 2007. Please take a few minutes an participate in our VSX Survey (Spring 2008) . Once our latest survey closes, we will share the results soon after including the trends between surveys. Have Read More...
Posted 13 June 08 08:29 by vsxteam | 1 Comments   
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VSX Community Letter for June 2008
This month's letter includes information about Microsoft's first VSX Developer Conference, updates to the VSX Developer Center, updates to the Visual Studio Gallery, and the new VSX Flash Newsletter. Also included is information about what the VSX team Read More...
VSX Tour (Spring 2008) session online
One of the VSX Tour (Spring 2008) presentations by James Lau and Jean-Marc Prieur is now online for on demand viewing (about 2 hours total), posted by Katrien .   VSX - Extend your development Experience - Part 1 VSX - Extend your development Experience Read More...
Posted 12 June 08 08:32 by vsxteam | 1 Comments   
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VSX Tour in Europe (Spring 2008) event reports
Updated: James Lau has completed the VSX tour with Jean-Marc Prieur . To view the VSX tour presentation online, see Jean-Marc's blog post: Watch VISUG session on VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) online Below are the links to the various trip report details Read More...
Posted 11 June 08 11:42 by vsxteam | 0 Comments   
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Generate Load Keys form on VSX dev center
Based on developer feedback as well as our own goals of making the end to end story for VSX developers easier, we have created a new web page on the VSX Developer Center site for a more simple, quick, and easy process of obtaining PLKs and SLKs. Below Read More...
Posted 11 June 08 11:15 by vsxteam | 1 Comments   
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Visual Studio Gallery phase 2 updates rollout
The Visual Studio Gallery site has many new features added, part of an overall phase 2 site feature update rollout this month. Summarized from Anthony Cangialosi's blog post The Visual Studio Gallery gets a little more community friendly : New features Read More...
Posted 11 June 08 08:56 by vsxteam | 1 Comments   
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Sign-up for the VSX Flash Newsletter email subscription
The VSX team has created a formal recurring communication email newsletter to provide the latest news, announcements, and special offers related to VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility), the VSIP (Visual Studio Industry Partners) program, and the Visual Studio Read More...
Free VSX book for VSX DevCon 2008 attendees
VSX DevCon 2008 News Flash: All attendees will receive a free copy of the book Professional Visual Studio Extensibility . Determined to make the Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) learning process as smooth as possible, this helpful resource shows you Read More...
Posted 10 June 08 10:00 by vsxteam | 1 Comments   
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Dr. eX: Why does GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE)) return null?
Ever build a Visual Studio package with code that looks like the following? p rotected override void Initialize() { base .Initialize ();             this .dte = GetService( typeof ( DTE )) as DTE Read More...
Posted 09 June 08 08:47 by vsxteam | 2 Comments   
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VSX Developer Center update - June 2008
The VSX Developer Center at http://msdn.com/vsx has been significantly updated today. There will be about 20 new pages added to the VSX dev center today, about 3 times as many pages that exist on it today. One overall new navigation feature you will notice Read More...
Posted 06 June 08 03:26 by vsxteam | 1 Comments   
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VSX Developer Conference 2008
VSX DevCon 2008: http://msdn.com/vsx/conference     This fall, Microsoft is hosting a developer conference to teach developers how to extend Visual Studio. Visual Studio is an open, extensible platform that can be customized for everything from Read More...
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