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Personal adventures in the world of technology...

Pimp your IDE!

Since I posted my IDE Tips and Tricks blog entry, I have been getting a lot of emails from...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 02/21/2007

Where is the January Release?

If you have been following what's going on with the Visual Studio platform and following releases of...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 02/05/2007

Another Visual Studio IDE Tip

Paul Harrington, our good dev lead over on the IDE team has recently written a simple macro to solve...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 01/29/2007

VS 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks

As some of you may know, I used to work in the Visual Studio IDE team before I joined the Ecosystem...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 01/04/2007

We shipped again! Here is the VS SDK 4.0 December CTP!

Hey fellow developers, It gives me great pleasure to announce that our team has just released the VS...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 12/08/2006

Visual Studio Extensibility Demystified

My friend Dr. eX just posted a nice blog about the various options for Visual Studio extensibility....

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 11/16/2006

VS SDK Browser - Getting your feedback early

We said we want to be open and transparent about what we are working on and we mean it. One of the...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 11/13/2006

SlickEdit Gadgets for VS 2005

The folks over at SlickEdit has just released a set of cool tools for Visual Studio 2005. They call...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 11/08/2006

Here we are: the VS SDK 4.0 (November CTP)!

My colleague Aaron Marten beat me to blogging about our release, but I am just as happy talking...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 10/27/2006

Have you registered for the VSIP Dev Lab yet?

VSIP Partners! Have you registered for the November VSIP Dev Labs yet? The Visul Studio Ecosystem...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 10/22/2006

Make sure you are VS SP1 Ready!

If you extend Visual Studio, either through add-ins or VS Packages, you should download VS SP1 Beta...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 10/11/2006

Our Community Plan

With the release of VS SDK 3.0 a couple of weeks ago, we are starting to look seriously into the...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 10/05/2006

Disccusion on VS SDK on Soma's Blog

In case you didn't notice, Soma blogged about our team's collaboration with QUT on delivering the...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 10/05/2006

New Team Mascot...

I forgot to mention that shortly after our team shipped VS SDK 3.0, our team got a new mascot. The...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 10/04/2006

What's up lately?

We have just completed the planning for VS SDK 4.0 last week. My good dev lead has posted the plans...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 10/04/2006

It's Here... VS 2005 SDK ver. 3.0 RTM

On behalf of the VS Ecosystem team, I am pleased to announce that we have just shipped the VS SDK v3...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 09/15/2006

Any day now...

The VS SDK v3 final RTM release is imminent. We are currently going through final phases of testing...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 09/11/2006

Just Shipped! VS SDK v3 August CTP

We have just posted the VS SDK v3, August CTP release on https://www.vsipmembers.com. Two major items...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 08/02/2006

VS SDK v3 July CTP released & more screencasts

I am happy to announce that we just released the VS SDK v3 July CTP last night. In this release, we...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 07/13/2006

VS SDK Screencast

One of my colleagues, Patrice Pelland, just posted two VS SDK screencasts on channel 9 today. It...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 07/06/2006

Whidbey, Gadgets and VS Ecosystem

It's been a long time since I have touched this blog. I promise I will do a better job at keeping my...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 07/05/2006

Technorati

Technorati Profile

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 10/06/2005

Visual Studio IDE Team Blog

BTW, in case you don't already know: we have started an IDE team blog. You can go to...

Author: jameslau-MS Date: 06/29/2004

Registration Benefits

Thanks for your feedback on registration. I have heard a variety of feedback, ranging from:...