Aaron Marten
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Why can't I show the "Add New Items" dialog in a WPF flavored project?
If you've downloaded and tried out the IronPythonIntegration sample in the July/August 2007 CTP of...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/31/2007
Visual Studio 2008 SDK for Beta 2 - Re-Released
Last week, we released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK - July 2007 CTP targeting Beta 2. As James...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/09/2007
IronPython Integration Sample and the WPF Designer
[Update Jan 04, 2008: Made <system.codedom> instructions more clear. Thanks to Cory Bloyd for...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/01/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 SDK Released
We've just released a version of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK targeting Beta 2. You can go grab it...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 07/31/2007
Timezones on MSDN Forums
One of the features I've been wishing for on the MSDN forums is support for displaying message...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 07/31/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Soma has just announced that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been shipped! You can download Visual...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 07/26/2007
Devenv /Setup Performance
When starting out with the Visual Studio SDK, one of the things you may notice from the start is the...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 07/19/2007
VSX "How Do I" Video Series
Pablo just mentioned this on his blog, but there are a new series of "How do I?" videos on VSX (as...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/29/2007
FolderShare + Powershell = Global Powershell Profile
I am starting to force myself to learn new tricks and generally use Powershell more and more. The...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/27/2007
VSSDK Assist
If you managed to make it to TechEd 2007, hopefully you were able to check out our chalk talk on...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/11/2007
Developing Packages as a Normal User (or How I Learned to Love UAC)
By now if you've had a chance to use Windows Vista, you've undoubtedly witnessed UAC in action....
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/06/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Shell
I'm here at TechEd, and we just announced that Visual Studio "Orcas" is now officially Visual Studio...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/06/2007
CTC is dead...Long Live VSCT! (Part 2)
In Part 1, I provided a brief overview of what VSCT looks like and some of the obvious advantages of...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/11/2007
Enter VSX
A new acronym that you'll see myself and others using more of now is VSX, which stands for Visual...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 04/29/2007
Visual Studio SDK for Orcas Beta 1
We've just released a version of the Visual Studio SDK that targets Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1....
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 04/27/2007
CTC is dead...Long Live VSCT! (Part 1)
One of the pieces of feedback we've gotten for a while now around creating a Visual Studio Package...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 04/02/2007
Package Load Analyzer
One of the great new features that we've added to the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4.0 is a tool...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 04/02/2007
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista
In case you're using the latest and greatest release of Windows, you should consider downloading the...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 03/06/2007
Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4.0 has shipped!
Download: Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4.0 From the download overview: "This is the official...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 03/01/2007
Mocking Visual Studio
One of the really cool features (that I only briefly mentioned here a few months ago) that ships in...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/21/2007
Scripting Visual Studio with Windows PowerShell
One of the really cool new things that shipped recently that I've been trying to learn more about is...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 02/06/2007
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Released
We've just released Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. You can get it from the Microsoft Download...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 12/18/2006
Dr. eX on Debugging Package Load Failures
Dr. eX has just posted an article called Debugging Package Load Failures that contains some great...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 12/14/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK - December 2006 (CTP)
Last Friday, our team shipped the December 2006 CTP of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. You can get the...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 12/11/2006
IronPython for ASP.NET
Mahesh from the IronPython team has just announced the release of IronPython for ASP.NET (CTP). I...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 11/02/2006
Where have all the Powertoys gone?
If you download our November 2006 CTP, you may notice that the powertoys are no longer included....
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 10/27/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK - Version 4 November 2006 CTP Available
We've just posted the November 2006 CTP version of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4. This...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 10/27/2006
VSIP / VS SDK @ TechEd Europe 2006
In case you're fortunate enough to be going to TechEd Europe 2006, be sure to check out the various...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 10/27/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK - Version 4 Planning
Allen has posted the current product backlog that we are hoping to accomplish for the Version 4...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 09/27/2006
Visual Studio SDK Documentation Wiki
Paul Cornell (VSSDK Documentation Manager) has just announced that like much of the other MSDN...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 09/19/2006
IronPython 1.0 has shipped!
As has been announced all over the Internet, the IronPython team shipped their 1.0 release this past...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 09/08/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK Documentation now available online
Paul Cornell (the Documentation Manager for the VSSDK) has more details posted on his blog....
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 09/08/2006
Two More VSSDK Bloggers to mention...
Just thought I'd quickly mention two more VSSDK bloggers to add to your RSS reader: Patrice Pelland...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/28/2006
Managed Language Tools in Visual Studio 2005 SDK
In the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 3, we've included a toolset which should be of value to you if...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/15/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK - August 2006 CTP now available
https://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/downloads/69/UserFileDownload.ashx Some of the new features...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 08/03/2006
Powertoys in the VSSDK
I received an email asking for a little more information on what exactly the Event Toaster Powertoy...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 07/19/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK - July 2006 CTP now available for download
https://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/downloads/66/UserFileDownload.ashx Some highlights of this CTP:...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 07/13/2006
More VSSDK Channel 9 Content and new URL
Some members of the VSSDK team (namely Patrice Pelland and Anthony Cangialosi) have been working on...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 07/13/2006
AllenD : VS SDK on Vista
Allen has just posted some good tips on using the Visual Studio SDK on Windows Vista.
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/23/2006
Visual Studio SDK on Channel 9!
Obviously saving the best for last before he ventures out from Microsoft, Scoble and the Channel 9...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/21/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK - June 2006 CTP Available
Download the Visual Studio 2005 SDK – June 2006 CTP (Free Registration required) Some of the new...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 06/01/2006
IronRuby - Visual Studio Integration
Wilco Bauwer has been working for several months on an implementation of the Ruby language that...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/31/2006
More Visual Studio Extensibility samples....
Think that samples of extending Visual Studio through the VSIP interfaces only exist in the VSSDK?...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/11/2006
'Consolas' font for Visual Studio 2005
Sean Laberee on the Visual Studio editor team posted that you can now download a new font called...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/09/2006
Visual Studio Extensibility Contest
You can win up to $5000 in the recently announced Visual Studio Extensibility Contest! Additionally,...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 05/09/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 2 has Shipped!!!!
You can download the SDK here. This is the second release of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK (version one...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 04/17/2006
Line Separators in the VS Core Editor
During the VSIP Developer Lab that was held here in Redmond last week, I investigated a quick...
Author: Aaron Marten Date: 04/17/2006