AllenD's WebLog
As most of you know corporate reorganization is bound to happen sooner or later. At Microsoft it...
Date: 08/25/2010
Did you catch the announcement at Mix today about Windows Phone 7 Series Development? Scott Guthrie...
Date: 03/15/2010
Chris Lovett posted a video on using the Dependency Graphs feature of VS 2010 on his blog:...
Date: 10/20/2009
Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 page on MSDN. I added a countdown...
Date: 10/19/2009
I've been working on Progression for the past 2 years, but there's not a very good definition that's...
Date: 10/02/2009
The Progression team has been hard at work getting the final touches on the Beta2 release of VS...
Date: 08/20/2009
In late January I boarded a plane with my family and one-way ticket to Seattle. Yes, the family and...
Date: 02/27/2009
Check out Suhail Dutta's Channel 9 video/demo of the Architecture Explorer and DGML documents. He...
Date: 09/30/2008
Check out the article on VS 2010. The screen shot there is my feature! The new Architecture Explorer...
Date: 09/29/2008
After a nice week in Redmond (weather was great through Wed, but turned nasty Thu - Sat) I'm back...
Date: 09/23/2008
I can't believe it's been a year without blogging. That's got to change... starting today. If you've...
Date: 09/16/2008
In case you are unaware, we're close to shipping Visual Studio 2008 (aka "Orcas"). I hope that's not...
Date: 10/02/2007
I've been working in the VS Extensibility area for quite a few years now. But the time is right for...
Date: 05/14/2007
Last week we released the VS SDK for VS "Orcas" Beta1. You can use this lastest version of the SDK...
Date: 04/30/2007
The Running Document Table is used in VS to control the state of opened documents. This is only...
Date: 03/16/2007
I was recently alerted to an email sent to Soma (Vice President leading the Microsoft Developer...
Date: 03/08/2007
On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, I am pleased to announce that after months of hard work,...
Date: 03/01/2007
We're putting the final touches on the v4 VS SDK for VS 2005. The team and I have been hard at work...
Date: 02/19/2007
My first trip to Europe is turning out to be great! The city of Barcelona is great. Many attractions...
Date: 11/08/2006
If you author a package or add-in for VS, we encourage you to download the VS 2005 SP1 Beta in order...
Date: 10/09/2006
Below I've pasted the VS SDK Product Backlog for version 4 of the VS SDK. We're planning to ship...
Date: 09/27/2006
You can visit the VS Extensibility portal for the latest information and resources. Follow the links...
Date: 09/15/2006
Check out the VS SDK documentation on the web! No longer are the VS SDK API's only doc'd with the VS...
Date: 09/08/2006
I've finally gotten around to trying out the VS SDK on Vista with UAC turned on. Here's what I had...
Date: 06/23/2006
My apologies at not blogging more often, but TechEd became even more of a blur in the last days and...
Date: 06/19/2006
Tuesday was an extremely full day. Partner meetings continually, booth duty for a large part of the...
Date: 06/14/2006
This is day one of the event. We're in full swing now. On the bus ride over the guy directly behind...
Date: 06/12/2006
I just arrived after a lazy morning. Since the demo station is open today until 9:00pm, I figured...
Date: 06/12/2006
Yesterday was the first day of TechEd for me. Did a tour of the TLC (technical learning center)....
Date: 06/12/2006
I'll be at TechEd this year. Please stop by the VS Extensibility booth for info on extending Visual...
Date: 06/05/2006
On May 15th there's a Visual Studio Extensibility contest being held. It runs 'til July 31st. More...
Date: 05/09/2006
I was asked this question this morning and figured that I should share the answer more largely in...
Date: 05/04/2006
We begin version 3 of the VS SDK supporting VS 2005 today! Over the last few weeks after releasing...
Date: 05/01/2006
I'm proud to announce the availability of the V2 VS SDK supporting VS 2005. This SDK is awesome. It...
Date: 04/17/2006
We're putting the final touches on the build of the v2 VS SDK for VS 2005. This is a totally...
Date: 03/30/2006
I'm doing a webcast today. (Sorry, it starts in 15 minutes!) The session is on the Managed Package...
Date: 01/24/2006
I got a question today after some confusion regarding Package Load Keys for Visual Studio and how to...
Date: 11/07/2005
I'm very pleased to announce the availability of the Visual Studio SDK for Visual Studio 2005. VSIP...
Date: 11/02/2005
The last day of the conference... It's always so strange on the last day of a conference. Everyone...
Date: 09/16/2005
Bob Muglia's General Session - Windows Server... I just got out of Bob Muglia's keynote and it was...
Date: 09/15/2005
I'm writing this on Thursday morning (day 3), but I wanted to post what happened yesterday... Day...
Date: 09/15/2005
If you saw my earlier posts on meeting the team, I've just updated them. The time to meet the...
Date: 09/14/2005
Well, yesterday was very eventful. Just after my previous post, we broke for lunch and just as we...
Date: 09/13/2005
Here's my schedule as of Monday morning: Item Location Day Start Finish Speaker Sessions PRE14 -...
Date: 09/12/2005
Hello. I'm sitting in 501ABC for the PDC05 Preconference Session on Visual Studio Extensibility. If...
Date: 09/12/2005
We just completed another Dev Lab on the Microsoft campus. This is an event for partners to bring...
Date: 08/26/2005