First of all, happy new year to all readers. 2008 will be the year when our upcoming books will be printed and you can finally read them so 2008 would be a busy year for authors of this blog.

And it would be a busy year for Visual Studio community as well, especially for VSX community as Ken Levy has pointed in his interview with .NET Rocks in a podcast.

If you don’t know Ken, I have to introduce him first. Ken is the Program Manager of Visual Studio Ecosystem team (the team that is responsible for extensibility features and DSL tools). Ken also gave me some help by giving a few comments on my book and I have to thank him here.

In show #303 you can listen to Ken’s interview with .NET Rocks about Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) which is now going to become a very important topic in near future and as Ken said in the podcast it’s going to have a separate community for its own.

In this episode Ken talks about Visual Studio Extensibility but his main focus is on Visual Studio 2008 Shell and its applications and samples. He also shares Microsoft’s plans for the future of VSX and its community and brings us good news about it.

If you’re interested in VSX topic then I’d recommend you to listen to this podcast and get some nice information.