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Known Issues for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0

Keyvan Nayyeri — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:16:41 +0000

Earlier today Visual Studio Ecosystem team published a blog post that contains a list of known issues with Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0. Most of these issues are affecting Domain-Specific Languages tools in Visual Studio 2008.

You know that Visual Studio SDK versions are released on a regular basis between Visual Studio releases so the next upcoming version of Visual Studio SDK in next a few months should fix most of these issues.

Visual Studio Ecosystem team is listening to your feedbacks, bug reports and feature requests to regard them in each new version of Visual Studio and its SDK so don’t hesitate to go ahead and write a few words for them on Visual Studio Extensibility forum.

Appropriate SKU for Visual Studio Extensibility

Keyvan Nayyeri — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:35:01 +0000

Following to earlier post by Nick about Visual Studio 2008 SKUs I just want to say that extensibility isn’t supported by Express editions of Visual Studio but you can develop and use extensions in all commercial editions.

Moreover, Domain-Specific Languages tools are supported by Professional edition or above so you can develop a DSL with Professional edition or above but can deploy a DSL to all commercial editions including the Standard edition.

Generally Professional edition is enough for someone who wants to develop and use extensibility options but above editions can be better because of the features that they offer for debugging, testing and other general-programming tasks.

Storyboard Designer – A Sample Visual Studio Shell Application

Keyvan Nayyeri — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:59:43 +0000

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.