Development Tools Ecosystem Summit

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…

How to extend the C++ Project System in Visual Studio 2010.

With Visual Studio 2010, creating extensions has never been easier! In this presentation, I will discuss and demonstrate the benefits of leveraging new Visual Studio technologies such as WPF and MEF, and will show how to optimize performance for your extensions.  The talk will cover…

In this session, we’ll explore Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA), which provides managed extensibility and a Visual Studio based scripting environment for both Component Object Model (COM) and Microsoft .NET applications. When integrated into an application, VSTA can help…

Interested in getting more out of the Visual Studio Debugger? Then extend the debugger to get the functionality that your customers need. This talk will cover a variety of debugger areas that can be extended to add richer functionality. Topics will include automating the debugger, creating custom…

Learn how to leverage the Visual Studio 2010 Shell.

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.

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…

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…

Visual Studio 2010 is shipping with a brand new help system. Come to this session to learn about the components that make up the Microsoft Help System: the Microsoft Help Viewer and Microsoft Help Agent. In this session we will discuss the architecture of the Microsoft Help System and details of…