Paramesh Vaidyanathan, Principal Product Unit Manager, and 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.[more ]

A look at how to extend Visual Studio with Add-ins, Templates & Wizards.[more ]

Visual Studio provides a great set of development tools out of the box, but you may be surprised at how much more you can do with its rich extensibility platform. In this introductory session, we will give you a whirlwind tour of what the Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) platform has to offer and how you can take advantage of it. Whether you are looking to increase you development team’s productivity, or you are looking for new business opportunities on the Visual Studio platform, this technical session will help you get started.[more ]

Code generation is an increasingly common technique in application development and forms a part of many Visual Studio extensions. With the addition of T4 to Visual Studio 2008, every developer has a powerful code generation engine available to them. In this session we'll look at patterns of usage of T4 and ways to structure your templates for large-scale reuse. We'll explore a sample that aids large scale code generation from DSL models and finally look at a community library which adds…[more ]

Discover how Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario": Database Edition empowers developers to actively participate in, and bring agility to, the database development process. If you work with databases, you will want see how the features offered by the latest addition to Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) integrate the database developer into the Application Development Lifecycle. This exciting product is changing the way database developers work with databases forever, by moving the "One…[more ]

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the server component of Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management solution. We all know TFS for its version control and work items functionality. TFS is also a great platform to extend for a specific organisation or to sell including your own ALM additions. In this session we will focus on creating add-ons for TFS. We will start by briefly talking about customizing and extending TFS and then diving into specific extensibility scenario's for core TFS components and managing TFS installations.[more ]

This talk covers distributing various Visual Studio Extensibility components. Whether you are shipping a VSPackage, Add-in, Project Template, or Toolbox Control, check out this webcast for tips and tricks and to avoid common pitfalls with deploying your Visual Studio extensions, including several demos for these topics.[more ]

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft's newest framework for building agile, loosely coupled, highly testable web applications. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, but not a replacement, for the current ASP.NET Web Forms Framework. Because ASP.NET MVC is a new framework, there are exciting opportunities for creating new extensions to the underlying framework. In this talk, you learn how to create new HTML Helpers for ASP.NET MVC. An HTML Helper is the equivalent of an ASP.NET control in the new world of ASP.NET MVC.[more ]

In this session we will take a close look at Team Foundation Server (TFS) extensibility points. Extensibility on the client side can significantly influence the user experience, but it can be hard to manage. Server side extensibility can help add new tools to Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), to create new integration solutions on top of TFS or to build bridges to existing systems. We will survey extensibility points available in TFS today and will work through the development of a sample that…[more ]

Extending Visual Studio 2008 Team Test[more ]