Clarius Labs

Clarius Consulting company which is one of most active Visual Studio extension creators, just released the November CTP of its Visual Studio Shell sample application named Storyboard Designer on CodePlex with source code.

Storyboard Designer is a Visual Studio Shell Isolated application that applied some other extensibility options such as DSL tools and project templates to create a real world Visual Studio sample application in an excellent way.

This application uses the isolated mode of Visual Studio Shell along storyboard designer of DSL tools and custom project templates to achieve its goals so can be used a very good example for Visual Studio Extensibility options.

This application is written for final versions of Visual Studio 2008 and its SDK so you need to have these three tools installed to be able to run it:

  • Visual Studio 2008
  • Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0
  • Visual Studio 2008 Shell Isolated Model redistributable package

I’d recommend anyone who is interested in VSX professionally to take a look at this sample application.

I’m going to write a set of posts about VS Shell on this blog in the near future.