Quan To's Visual Studio Extensibility blog
Blog to discuss extensibility in Visual Studio
Soma posts about building extensions
It's always nice to see a blog post from your VP discussing your feature area :) Soma posted a high...
Date: 12/09/2009
VSX Conference Day 1
Our annual VSX Conference started today, the same day we officially announced and launched Visual...
Date: 10/19/2009
Extension Manager Intro Video
I just put together a quick intro to the extension manager. Consider it my 1 minute elevator pitch...
Date: 07/02/2009
Visual Studio Gallery Updates
Our Visual Studio Gallery just got an update today with some small changes since our initial Beta 1...
Date: 06/16/2009
How do I deploy a Toolbox Control as a VSIX?
Several partners have asked me how they can package up their Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox Controls as...
Date: 06/12/2009
Channel 9 talks about Extensibility and VS 2010 Beta 1
I just got forwarded this Channel 9 video posted a couple of weeks ago:...
Date: 06/12/2009
Why isn't there a 64 bit version of Visual Studio?
Our Visual Studio Chief Architect, Rico Mariani, wrote up a great blog about why we haven't moved to...
Date: 06/11/2009
Building and publishing a Visual Studio 2010 extension walkthrough
It's always great to see your General Manager excited about a feature you worked on. It's nice to...
Date: 06/04/2009
Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 installer crashes when I click on "Next"
I updated our Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK readme a few days ago but I wanted to call this out in...
Date: 06/02/2009
Integrated and Isolated Shell for VS 2010 Beta 1
We quietly shipped the Visual Studio Integrated and Isolated Shells when Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1...
Date: 05/28/2009
What is a VSIX?
The VSIX file is the unit of deployment for a Visual Studio 2010 Extension. Visual Studio will...
Date: 05/26/2009
5 Reasons to learn about extending VS 2010
One of our Visual Studio Extensibility MVPs just put together a great blog about why you should...
Date: 05/22/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Extensibility Forum
If you have any Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 extensibility questions with the Extension Manager, VSIX,...
Date: 05/21/2009
Reference Assistant for Visual Studio 2010
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the Reference Assistant extension for Visual Studio in my blog. I've...
Date: 05/21/2009
First few VS 2010 extensions are now available
One of our Editor Developers (Noah Richards) has uploaded the first and second Visual Studio...
Date: 05/20/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Resharper Extension (coming soon)!!
It looks like the guys over in Jetbrains are starting to work on their Visual Studio 2010 Resharper...
Date: 05/18/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is available (for MSDN subscribers)
We're live!!! After nearly a year and a half, we've reached another milestone for Visual Studio. The...
Date: 05/18/2009
Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 Readme
Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 Supplemental Readme The Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Documentation is...
Date: 05/13/2009
Tech Ed Editor Talk
Tech Ed is around the corner! I can't believe it's been almost a year since the last Tech Ed in...
Date: 05/08/2009
Reference Assistant
A few weeks ago, several of our VSIP partners came on campus for another Dev Clinic. One of the...
Date: 04/28/2009
What are the customization points for the Visual Studio Isolated Shell?
I've been asked this several times by our Visual Studio Integration Partners, by folks with...
Date: 03/17/2009
What to get a developer for Christmas?
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Atleast it is in the Northwest. There's about a foot of...
Date: 12/22/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Russian edition has just been Released!
I normally don't make a big deal out of localized languages shipping but this one's special. We've...
Date: 10/27/2008
What happened to msenv.pdb for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1?
The build process in the developer division builds symbols for all our binaries on a daily basis....
Date: 10/09/2008
VS SDK Momentum
We're picking up a lot of mometum with the Visual Studio 2008 SDK. We have over 170,000 downloads of...
Date: 10/03/2008
How do I get progress back from the integrated or isolated shell installer at setup time?
I've been asked by a few VSIP partners this week and a few times over email so I wanted to put the...
Date: 09/18/2008
VSX Dev Con - VSIP Dinner
The public portion of our Visual Studio Extensibility Dev Conference ended Tuesday. We had a great...
Date: 09/18/2008
VSX Dev Con - Day 2
Another great day at our VSX Dev Conference today. Our marketing directory Joe Marini kicked things...
Date: 09/16/2008
VSX Dev Con - Day 1 - Part 2
It's been a full day of sessions and we're still not done yet. James is currently presenting a talk...
Date: 09/15/2008
VSX Dev Con - Day 1
I'm blogging live from the VSX Dev Con. Right now, our VS Chief Architect Rico Mariani is giving the...
Date: 09/15/2008
VSX Conference is next week!
It's been pretty exciting around here as we're getting ready to host our first public VSX...
Date: 09/09/2008
We Shipped!!!
The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 just released! I have the honor of posting the bits online, sending...
Date: 08/20/2008
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Readme
Readme for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 This readme provides information about what is new...
Date: 08/15/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is live!
After countless hours, the Developer Division has just released Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1!!!...
Date: 08/11/2008
VSX Conference Sessions posted
Our Visual Studio Ecosystem team will be putting on a conference on September 15th and 16th. It'll...
Date: 07/28/2008
Good Luck Ken!
Our VSX community PM, Ken Levy has decided to leave the castle walls at Microsoft and start his own...
Date: 07/18/2008
Getting PLKs are now a lot easier
I've been on the Ecosystem team for just over half a year now. I don't know how many times I've been...
Date: 07/03/2008
Build and customize your own Isolated Shell (Tech Ed Chalk Talk)
For Tech Ed 2008, I gave a Chalk Talk on how to build and customize your own Visual Studio Isolated...
Date: 06/10/2008
Changes to the dev center and VS gallery
While James and I have been out to conferences, the other two program managers on our team, Anthony...
Date: 06/06/2008
Tech Ed Day 4 (last day)
Today was the last day of the Tech Ed Developer's conference. Next week will be the IT Pro...
Date: 06/06/2008
Tech Ed Day 3
Today was my chalk talk at Tech Ed. We were hoping for a good crowd and weren't disappointed. The...
Date: 06/05/2008
VSX Dev Con - Sept 15 & 16
I've been promoting this at the booth at Tech Ed but also wanted to make sure I mention it on my...
Date: 06/04/2008
Tech Ed Day 2
Today was a little less hectic as I only had one shift from 11:45 am to 2:45 pm. I chatted with a...
Date: 06/04/2008
Tech Ed 2008 - Day 1
Tech Ed Day 1 It’s hot in Orlando. Real hot. Extremely hot. Lightning and flash storms also seem to...
Date: 06/04/2008
Tech Ed Booth Duty Schedule
Our booth duty schedule has been finalized for Tech Ed next week. If you're coming to Tech Ed and...
Date: 05/31/2008
Tech Ed Booth Duty
While in Orlando next week, there will be four of us staffing the VSX booth. I'm still not 100% sure...
Date: 05/29/2008
Some new faces on the VS SDK
We just added a few more people to our small team. Jean-Marc joined us a few months ago and is...
Date: 05/29/2008
Why can't I debug my VS Package in an Isolated Shell?
Aaron helped me figure this out as it puzzled me for a couple of days :) It's also a topic at:...
Date: 05/27/2008
Tech Ed Chalk Talk
It's been a busy week. My chalk talk is in less than two weeks (or a fort night as Gareth would say)...
Date: 05/23/2008