Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 Available!

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It pays to be in early in the morning... sometimes you get to be the first to announce. :)

The Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 is now available for download on MSDN Download Center. This SDK matches the Visual Studio 2010 Beta, that was released earlier this week. It provides the tools and templates needed to build new extensions for the Beta. You can still create packages, menu items, and tool windows, but now these get registered through .pkgdef files, and your extension gets packaged up into a .vsix file which you can upload and host on the Visual Studio Gallery (so that users can find them through Visual Studio in the Extension Manager). There are also new templates for writing extensions to the brand new code editor in Visual Studio.

So, give the SDK a try, and see what kind of cool extensions you can create for VS.

Want to see a full list of what's new in the SDK, look here.