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Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1

Keyvan Nayyeri — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:21:30 +0000

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.

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

Keyvan Nayyeri — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:44:53 +0000

Today Visual Studio Ecosystem team announced the availability of PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 as a free set of extensions that brings lots of helpful features to Visual Studio IDE. These commands are available with source code to let you learn how to develop new commands or modify them. Some of these features are a part of some editions of Visual Studio 2008 and you can bring them to other editions via these commands.

You need to have Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 installed to be able to open the source code for these commands.

A short list of features that are provided by this project are:

Collapse Projects
Copy Class
Paste Class
Copy References
Paste References
Copy As Project Reference
Edit Project File
Open Containing Folder
Open Command Prompt
Unload Projects
Reload Projects
Remove and Sort Usings
Extract Constant
Clear Recent File List
Clear Recent Project List
Transform Templates
Close All

You can download the package that contains the source code of PowerCommands from the announcement post.

Visual Studio 2008 SDK Released

Keyvan Nayyeri — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:36:43 +0000

This is my first post on this blog. Dave already has introduced me and I have to thank him here. As he said, I’m the author of forthcoming Wrox Professional Visual Studio Extensibility book which is due to publish in March 2008. On this blog, I’m going to write about Visual Studio especially about Visual Studio Extensibility (aka VSX).

Interestingly I’m beginning my blogging on this site when Visual Studio 2008 is released just two days ago and its SDK released earlier today. Ken Levy from Visual Studio Ecosystem team announced this with great details. You can download the first version of Visual Studio 2008 SDK from here.

As you see in the announcement, there are three major additions to this new SDK including the new Visual Studio Shell integrated and isolated modes as well as Visual Basic support for code samples.

Here on this blog, I want to begin writing some posts about Visual Studio Shell and Domain-Specific Languages Tools as two not-covered-much aspects of VSX and also will cover other aspects of VSX beside them.

So stay tuned and keep looking on this blog.