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Dec 19, 2009
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Codecast interviews about the Editor and Extensibility

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Visual Studio Blog

  Happy holidays everyone!  Chris Granger and I met up with Ken Levy the other day to talk about the new Editor and VS Extensibility. Ken is responsible for the code cast interviews at code magazine.  Chris and I sat down with Ken to discuss the Editor, the SDK, the Extension Manager, VSIX and some of the cool new things we’re shipp...

Dec 18, 2009
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What’s A PkgDef? And Why?

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Visual Studio Blog

A .pkgdef file is way to encapsulate application configuration information in an easily editable, distributable, and deployable form. It was introduced in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to support the configuration of Isolated Shell applications. In Visual Studio 2010, .pkgdef files take on a more expanded role and are much more integrated into both the ID...

Visual Studio 2010
Dec 18, 2009
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What’s A PkgDef? And Why?

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Visual Studio Blog

A .pkgdef file is way to encapsulate application configuration information in an easily editable, distributable, and deployable form. It was introduced in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to support the configuration of Isolated Shell applications. In Visual Studio 2010, .pkgdef files take on a more expanded role and are much more integrated into both the ID...

Visual Studio 2010
Dec 14, 2009
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Customizing Visual Studio 2010

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Visual Studio Blog

Don’t like where a button is by default?  Go ahead and move it.  To speed up your workflow, add handy commands to a context menu.  To reduce clutter, remove commands that you never use.  Yes, customizing the UI can take a little while to get it just right, but doing so will provide you with a workspace that can boost your ...

Dec 10, 2009
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Developer Tools Ecosystem Summit Videos Now Available!

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Visual Studio Blog

Video recordings of the talks that were given at the 2009 Developer Tools Ecosystem Summit have just been posted on Channel 9.  There are some great talks on topics ranging from VSX basics, to the extending the new Editor, to deploying and sharing your extensions on the Visual Studio Gallery.  Check them out and let us know what you think...

Dec 9, 2009
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Building and publishing an extension for Visual Studio 2010

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Visual Studio Blog

Quan To â€“ Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform Team Short Bio: Quan is responsible for the Extension Manager and Visual Studio SDK.  Quan has been with Microsoft for over ten years and has also spent time working on the Tablet PC Team and the Visual Studio Deployment team. Visual Studio 2010 supports more platforms and language...

HTMLC#Node.js
Dec 7, 2009
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Bootstrapping of VS packages and VSIX extensions in VS2010

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Visual Studio Blog

Dmitry Goncharenko: Developer, Visual Studio Platform Short bio: Dmitry has been at Microsoft for about 10 years working on several areas of Visual Studio. For Visual Studio 2010, he helped to design and implement PkgDef management, VSIX technologies, and hosting of MEF components. Visual Studio 2010 uses two technologies to make it much simpler t...

Node.js
Dec 1, 2009
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Upcoming VS Platform MSDN Webcasts

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Visual Studio Blog

[Update:  The Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility has been moved to 12/16 @ 10 a.m.  Please update your calendars to reflect this change.] I wanted to announce two upcoming MSDN Webcasts that will be presented by Visual Studio Platform PMs, Weston Hutchins and Chris Granger.  Both of these are introductory level tal...

Dec 1, 2009
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Visual Studio Extensibility Videos

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Visual Studio Blog

Hi folks, I wanted to call out a couple of videos we just released to the community.  I spent some time last week putting together a short video on publishing your extension to the Visual Studio Gallery.  The video will give you a walkthrough of what to expect when sharing your extension and shows you what to expect on the Gallery....

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