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Product registration for the About Box in Visual Studio 2010 and the deprecation of IVsInstalledProduct interface

January 5, 2010 Jan 5, 2010 01/5/10
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In this article I’ll talk about the information that needs to be specified by a product integrating with Visual Studio to make that product appear in the About box dialog, and the changes to these settings for Visual Studio 2010. You are probably familiar by now with the layout of the Visual Studio’s About Box dialog. (image) Beside ...

Building and publishing an extension for Visual Studio 2010

December 9, 2009 Dec 9, 2009 12/9/09
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(image) Quan To – Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform Team Short Bio: Quan is responsible for the Extension Manager and Visual Studio SDK.  Quan has been with Microsoft for over ten years and has also spent time working on the Tablet PC Team and the Visual Studio Deployment team. Visual Studio 2010 supports more ...

Visual Studio Extensibility Videos

December 1, 2009 Dec 1, 2009 12/1/09
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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...

What's new for editor extenders in Beta 2?

November 23, 2009 Nov 23, 2009 11/23/09
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(image) 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...

What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2?

November 23, 2009 Nov 23, 2009 11/23/09
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(image) 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...

Framework Multi-Targeting for VC++ Projects

November 22, 2009 Nov 22, 2009 11/22/09
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(image) 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...

Behind the Scenes: The Splash Screen

November 10, 2009 Nov 10, 2009 11/10/09
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(image) 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...