Development Tools Ecosystem Summit

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…

Rico Mariani, Architect for the Visual Studio Platform team shares his ideas and long term goals for Visual Studio.  Learn how industry trends are changing the way you will develop software and how Visual Studio will lead the way.

If you're interested in adding a Language to Visual Studio, you'll want to know how the new editor's APIs fit in the concept of a "Language Service." This session will explore the over-arching concepts you'll need to know to accomplish this, as well as diving into real implementations of…

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…

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…

Learn what marketing methods are most effective at each stage of the buying process. You'll also see the results of a brand-new, independent developer study showing you what devs look for in your marketing messages. We'll also look at some templates for effective developer marketing plans you can…

While many of you may know that Visual Studio 2010 comes with a new WPF based, extensible editor, do you know why you should care? We will take a look at the new editor by examining a series of common scenarios that showcase what you can do with editor extensions. You can think of this as your…

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

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.…

In October Microsoft hosted a developer conference in Redmond to show develoeprs how to get the most from Visual Studio including extending the new editor in VS 2010, using the Visual Studio SDK, Team Foundation Server extensibility, and VS Tools for Applications. Many of the videos from this…