Yesterday Microsoft Visual Studio Extensibility team announced a new update in Visual Studio 2008 SDK and released version 1.1 to public.

For VSX developers, this is important news because there are some major updates to improve the extensibility features especially around Visual Studio Shell development. This new version works on .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Quan To has outlined these updates on VSX team blog but major updates are a reduction in the size of VS Shell package installers that no longer hold .NET Framework 3.5 data and also there is an update that lets you develop VS Shell applications as a normal Windows user that wasn’t possible before.

You can download Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 from here.