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[Update: The Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility has been moved to 12/16 @ 10 a.m. Please update your calendars to reflect this change.] I wanted to announce two upcoming MSDN Webcasts that will be presented by Visual Studio Platform PMs, Weston Hutchins and Chris Granger. Both of these are introductory level tal...
Hi folks, I wanted to call out a couple of videos we just released to the community. I spent some time last week putting together a short video on publishing your extension to the Visual Studio Gallery. The video will give you a walkthrough of what to expect when sharing your extension and shows you what to expect on the Gallery....
Noah Richards – Developer, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio: Noah has been working on the Visual Studio Editor team since he graduated college two and a half years ago. He maintains a blog, posts sample code for editor extensions, and frequently answers editor-related questions on Twitter. Editor’s Note: This post was origina...
Noah Richards – Developer, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio: Noah has been working on the Visual Studio Editor team since he graduated college two and a half years ago. He maintains a blog, posts sample code for editor extensions, and frequently answers editor-related questions on Twitter. Editor’s Note: This post was origina...
Short Bio: Pavan Adharapurapu is a developer on the Visual Studio Project and Build team. As part of VS 2010, he has worked on numerous features of the VC++ project system such as property sheets, filters, property pages, platform and tool extensibility, etc. His long term focus is on developing a "common project system" infrastructure which could ...
First of all, let’s take a look at the example from one of my previous posts. It creates an expression tree for calculating the factorial of a number. Now, what if you want to see the content of this tree in debug mode? You can try lambda.ToString() but it’s not very informative. All you get is this: value => {var result; … }. Basically, it te...
Hi again – Josh here, Toolbox developer. If you've created or installed a toolbox item, but it doesn't appear in the toolbox when the appropriate designer is active, the first thing to do is select "Show All" from the toolbox and check to see if the item is there at all. (The new search feature might help.) If the item is missing altog...
Several of our VSIP partners have asked me if they can host their VSIX file on their own server and what would the user experience be?To answer the first question, yes, you can host your VSIX file on your owner server. It doesn’t have to live on the Visual Studio Gallery. Customers who visit your website can download the VSIX file...
Paul Harrington – Principal Developer, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: Paul Harrington is a principal software developer on the Visual Studio platform team. He has worked on every version of Visual Studio .Net to date. Prior to joining the Visual Studio team in 2000, Paul spent six years working on mapping and trip planning software for...
Adrian Collier – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2004 back in the UK and crossed the pond last year to work on Popfly, since then I’ve been working in Visual Studio land primarily working on the Start Page and window management areas if the IDE. One of the largest areas of feedbac...