Development Tools Ecosystem Summit

Due to the COM roots of Visual Studio and the lack of the right tool set deploying Visual Studio extension requires “creativity” from developers. Visual Studio 2010 is a great leap on this field with its brand new tools and technologies including Extension Manager, Visual Studio Gallery and VSIX.…

Want to customize and enhance the out-of-box Visual Studio 2010 development environment? Want to build your own WPF tool window but don't know how to get started? This talk will cover the basics of Visual Studio extensibility and show you how to take advantage of the numerous extension options…

In this session, we will demonstrate the newly added support in Expression Blend 3 for 3rd party behaviors, shaders, and controls that enable a designer to build rich interactive applications and prototypes in Silverlight and WPF. We will also demonstrate the various new extensibility points added…

Members of the VSIP program and Visual Studio community will share just how they leverage Visual Studio to deliver valuable products for their customers and make their development process more productive. You'll see demos and presentations from a variety partners and community members in a fast…

Visual Studio 2010 provides a rich set of project templates and tools that developers can use to create custom SharePoint solutions. Although these SharePoint projects and tools work well for most scenarios, there may be times when different or new functionality is needed. In these cases, you can…

T4 is a template-based code generation engine built into Visual Studio. This session provides an end-to -end overview of developing a code generator for a Domain-Specific Language, from template syntax and transformation process, to template debugging, to integration and deployment of code…

Integrating with the new Work Item Linking and Hierarchy, Integrating Work Items to Microsoft Excel, Integrating with Microsoft Project and TFS.

Come to this session to understand what we've changed in the WPF extensibility model in VS 2010, how to build design times for Silverlight controls, and how to build one design time for both the WPF and Silverlight version of your control.

In this session, we will discuss what is available in the Visual Studio SDK for reading Historical Debugger log files. We will share out a sample console log dumper application and build a visualization demo, on the fly, to show off how the SDK can be effectively used.

Visual Studio Team Architect 2010 is a radical departure from previous versions. With the new features available for modeling and graphical exploration come opportunities to extend and plug in to extend the capabilities in multiple ways. This session will provide a quick demonstration of the new…