AllenD's WebLog
Please visit the VSIPDev.com download page to see the latest available downloads. The August CTP of...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 08/04/2005
We've been thinking (for a long time) of improvig the CTC format and editing experience to make it...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/29/2005
A great partner recently asked me about a newsgroup post mentioning Unicode CTC files. The post...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/19/2005
I just saw a nice interview with MS CEO Steve Ballmer on Channel 9. Check it out when you have about...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/12/2005
Some VS 2005 customer love [:)]
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/11/2005
We're at the PDC! We're still getting all the pieces in place, but our plan is to have Visual Studio...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/08/2005
We're still planning our July Sprint, but I wanted to share what the team is (to this point) going...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/06/2005
Been wondering what I've been up to for the last few months? Well, reengineering the development...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/01/2005
You want it, you got it! The VSIP SDK for the June CTP for VS2005 is now available for download at...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 06/21/2005
out parameters might be NULL in managed code - using causes Exception, ignoring causes Compiler error
What's one to do? Recently MicroFocus found this issue with one of the interop definitions in VS...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2005
In the past none of our VSIP partners cared much for getting the VSIP SDK to match a release of a...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 06/16/2005
I forgot about this 'til now....
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2005
Whew! It's been a while hasn't it? My new son was born 9/30 and I returned to work late October...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2005
I'm going on infant care leave either tomorrow or next week. I'll most likely not blog anything...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 09/29/2004
Just got done with a two-day certification in the Scrum Project Management methodology. I'm now...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2004
Here's a little code to help managed packages call the Running Document Table to rename a document:...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 08/20/2004
I've finally gotten around to posting the Regular Expression Language Service so you can get to it....
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2004
Check out Ken Hardy, VS Core PM for Extensibility share some info on MSDN TV. If you were at TechEd...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/15/2004
It occured to me that I didn't discuss what the framework will do when the options you specified in...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/12/2004
I investigated this question earlier today for an internal VS client and wanted to share the results...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 07/09/2004
I forgot to mention the way to provide VS 2005 feedback. Visit the MSDN Product Feedback Center...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2004
Boy, a ton of stuff is happening this week: 1) VS 2005 Beta 1 is released. You can find it here:...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2004
Well, there's still a ton of people here at the San Diego Convention Center even though it's down to...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/28/2004
Last night's TechEd SeaWorld event was great. We saw the Shamu show first and it was great. Amazing...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/28/2004
First, the background: The Feature Cook-off was Wed at 8:30AM. Tue morning I was in a panic because...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/26/2004
Steve Ballmer is speaking now... There's a bunch of stuff he's saying about VSIP and integrating...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/24/2004
In the Whidbey Managed Package Framework in VSIP there's a few different base classes that hold an...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/24/2004
I left Redmond, WA on Friday night with my family. Traveled for about 5.5 hours. Stayed in Salem, OR...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/23/2004
I'm heading out tonight to OR, CA on Sat, and finally San Diego on Sun. If you're going to Tech Ed...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/21/2004
At TechEd, some of the Extensibility team members will be holding a Cabana session where we will...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/06/2004
Check out some of the team members in Visual Studio along with my BIO here.
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 05/06/2004
Addins & Packages - can they talk to each other? I recently received a question on this from a...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2004
You can now download the release version of the VSIP Extras SDK. The new Visual Studio Extensibility...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 03/25/2004
I received the following question recently: Should I set CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture in my...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 03/01/2004
In a previous post (https://blogs.msdn.com/allend/archive/2003/10/16/56791.aspx) I ranted about a...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2004
If you are coming to the VSIP Partner Summit next week, I'll be around so please stop by and say...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2004
I had this question come to my inbox today: Can someone confirm how to setup your VSIP Package for...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 02/18/2004
If you have access to the underlying Package base class, it exposes a method to get services called...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 02/16/2004
In the VSIP Everett Extras release (currently in beta - see https://www.vsipdev.com for more details)...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2004
Whew! It's been a long time since I posted anything. I've had my tonsils and adenoids removed. Boy...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2004
Please visit https://weblogs.asp.net/allend for the continuation of this blog...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2003
As you may know GDN is shutting down it's blogging. This new site is the best I could do in short...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2003
Sorry that it's been so long since I've blogged. The PDC was great and Everett Extras is going...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2003
I've recently stumbled upon a problem that a couple of VSIP Developers have encountered. I say...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2003
Mon Night Monday night we had a reception in the Expo Hall and there were a lot of people...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2003
I'm sitting in the Tools & Languages Community Lounge at the PDC here in Los Angeles. It's...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2003
Preparations I'm in the mode where everything needs to get done before I can leave. Don't you...
Author: AllenD [MSFT] Date: 10/24/2003