Aaron Marten
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“Invalid License Data” after VS 11 Beta to VS 2012 RC Upgrade
We’ve been seeing reports of some users hitting an “Invalid License Data” error on VS startup after...
Date: 06/02/2012
Visual Studio @ UserVoice
We now have an official site for Visual Studio on UserVoice! Please use this as a way to send...
Date: 07/20/2011
Visual Studio Extensions and Build Servers
From time to time, we see questions around building a project created with the Visual Studio 2010...
Date: 05/10/2011
Custom Extension Types with VSIX
I just posted an article entitled “Custom Extension Types with VSIX” on the Visual Studio Blog....
Date: 04/16/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Released
By now you’ve probably heard that we launched Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 today!...
Date: 04/12/2010
Including Existing Templates in a VSIX Container
In the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, we have several samples (most notably, IronPythonIntegration) set up...
Date: 03/12/2010
Targeting VS 2008 with the Visual Studio 2010 SDK
Recently, a customer asked us if it was possible to develop and debug a VB/C# extension with Visual...
Date: 12/07/2009
All Your RegKeys Are Belong To Us
I’ve been in many discussions lately with various folks about Visual Studio 2010 extensibility....
Date: 11/06/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (+SDK) on MSDN
We’ve just released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (and the SDK) on MSDN. If you’re a MSDN subscriber,...
Date: 10/19/2009
Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines
One of the things you may notice is missing from the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK (compared to...
Date: 06/25/2009
What is the “VSIX Project” template?
Disclaimer : This is about working with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK. Information is likely to...
Date: 06/09/2009
Pkgdef and the Experimental Instance in VS 2010
***Disclaimer: This information is about Visual Studio 2010 only. The following may not be accurate...
Date: 06/05/2009
Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1
The Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 is now available for download. Be sure to check out the latest...
Date: 05/21/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Shipped
Somasegar (VP in charge of DevDiv) has just blogged that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has been released...
Date: 05/18/2009
Consolas : Default Editor Font in VS 2010
Yesterday, the folks responsible for building the core text editor in Visual Studio announced that...
Date: 03/12/2009
New Syndication URL
I’ve moved the syndication feed for this blog to use FeedBurner. If you read this blog via an...
Date: 02/24/2009
Update on Extension Manager and Visual Studio 2010
Jason Zander, the General Manager for Visual Studio, has just announced some more details (with...
Date: 02/24/2009
F# Included in Visual Studio 2010
Don Syme has just announced that F# will ship in the box with Visual Studio 2010.
Date: 12/11/2008
Extension Manager
One of the new features we plan on shipping for VS 2010 that I've been heads down on for the past...
Date: 11/04/2008
Split Window / New Window – Bad Painting Behavior in your Language Service
Recently, a question was asked on the VSX Forum about bad behavior from a language service after the...
Date: 09/10/2008
BooLangStudio
The Boo programming language now has a Codeplex project called BooLangStudio which adds Boo...
Date: 08/23/2008
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Released
Earlier this week, we released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1. This is the SDK which is compatible...
Date: 08/23/2008
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Shipped
We shipped Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 to the web this morning! Soma has more details....
Date: 08/11/2008
VSX Developer Conference : Sep 15-16, 2008 - Redmond, WA
In just a few weeks, we’ll be hosting a conference here in Redmond at the Microsoft Conference...
Date: 08/04/2008
Package Load Key Generator
Recently, we published a simple web page that will generate a Package/Shell Load Key for you...
Date: 06/25/2008
Namespace# - Diagnostics Viewer for HxS (Help 2.0)
Anand has just announced a new tool called Namespace# for diagnosing problems and working with Help...
Date: 06/06/2008
Hello, MEF
Congratulations to the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) team who just released their first CTP!...
Date: 06/05/2008
VSX MSDN Forum Updated
Looks like the VSX Forum has been migrated over to the new MSDN Forums!
Date: 05/29/2008
Match Options Command Addin
A while back, there was some interest on the VSX forum around adding back functionality to have...
Date: 03/21/2008
Lang .NET Videos Back Up
Enjoy!
Date: 03/20/2008
Lang .NET Videos Down
FYI...Jimmy has an update on where the Lang .NET videos went. The company hosting the server...
Date: 02/29/2008
VSX Videos on Channel 9
Yesterday, Ken Levy and I sat down with Dan from Channel 9 to have an unscripted discussion about...
Date: 02/27/2008
Visual Studio Gallery
Soma has just announced, the new Visual Studio Gallery. The gallery is the central location where...
Date: 02/27/2008
Creating a VSPackage with F#
Ever since Mattox Beckman introduced the OCaml language to those of us lucky enough to be in his...
Date: 02/25/2008
Painting Bug in Visual Studio 2008 SDK Browser
There's a nasty bug in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK browser (i.e. the app you can use to browse the...
Date: 02/20/2008
Lang .NET Talk
A few weeks ago, Carl Brochu and I had the incredible opportunity to speak at the 2008 Lang .NET...
Date: 02/20/2008
FREE Visual Studio 2008 for College Students via DreamSpark
A few years ago, back when I was in college, there was an academic program from Microsoft (called...
Date: 02/19/2008
VSX Group on Facebook
In case any of you passionate VSX developers out there also happen to be on Facebook, you might want...
Date: 02/07/2008
Remember to reset your Experimental hive
If you open and build one of the samples in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, and see the following error,...
Date: 02/07/2008
Webcast on DSL Tools Tomorrow (Tues 1/29) Morning
Sorry for the late notice, but I just saw a note from Gareth that he will be doing a webcast on...
Date: 01/28/2008
Upgrading VSPackage source projects to target Visual Studio 2008
James has a great post about updating a project that was building with the Visual Studio 2005 SDK to...
Date: 01/22/2008
IronPython Studio
Ever since we first released the IronPythonIntegration sample in the Visual Studio SDK, one of the...
Date: 12/12/2007
We are Hiring
The Visual Studio Ecosystem Group (includes the Visual Studio SDK + DSL Tools) is hiring! If you'd...
Date: 12/07/2007
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 & the Visual Studio 2008 Shell have Shipped!
Over on the VSX Team Blog, we've announced that the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 has shipped! You can...
Date: 11/21/2007
Visual Studio 2008 has Shipped!
We've just released Visual Studio 2008 to manufacturing and the web! MSDN subscribers can go...
Date: 11/19/2007
Big News for VSX from TechEd Europe
Earlier today, Soma (VP for Microsoft Developer Division) announced some big news for VSIP partners...
Date: 11/05/2007
Speaking at DevTeach in Vancouver
I'll be presenting a session entitled "An Introduction to Visual Studio Extensibility" at the...
Date: 10/03/2007
Hot off the servers: CoDe Magazine on VSX
This has already been mentioned on the VSX Team blog, but CoDe Magazine has just published a special...
Date: 09/28/2007
Visual Basic Support for Visual Studio Packages
We've just posted the Visual Basic Pack for the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4. This is an add-on...
Date: 09/15/2007