Entries tagged with vs extensibility - Channel 9

This week on C9: Get paid for open source, Azure for dating, debugging and naming lore

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:41:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the top developer news, including:

- Microsoft Security Essentials (previously code-named Morro)
- Peli de Halleux - New Release of CHESS with data race detection (video)
- Quan To - How to deploy a toolbox control using VSIX for Visual Studio 2010
- Codeplex Updates - Project owners option to receive advertising revenue (details), Code snippet support, more wiki formatting options
- Habib Heydarian - Import/Export Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2010
- Tess Ferandez - Debugging .NET 4.0 dumps in Visual Studio 2010
- Microsoft Product Naming Lore (courtesy of Jason Zander)
- Visual Basic 1.0 was codenamed "Thunder"
- The CLR Team was codenamed "Lightning"
- The NTSD extension to bootstrap v1.0 was called "Strike"
- The WinDBG extension for managed code was named "Son of Strike" but known to customers as SOS
- Gunnar Piepman - Visual Studio 2010 Web.Config transforms to change based on your environment (Dev vs Production)
- Will Tschumy - Photobucket Visual Search Launches (try it)
- Jeff Atwood, CodingHorror - Busting the Digg.com Frame and other site framers
- Clint Rutkas - Transferring Photoshop to XAML
- W3bbo - C9 Coffeehouse - Volunteers for fully managed 7-Zip C# Library
- TeamDevCentral provides free trial hosting for Team Foundation Server 2008

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick of the week: Brandon Bloom - XBOX LIVE Avatar Punch-out
- Brian's pick of the week: Steve Marx - Azure application, the CIA pickup (video), helping you get a date

Joe Marini: Microsoft's direction with Visual Studio Extensibility

Dan Fernandez — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:57:00 GMT

In this interview, you'll hear from Joe Marini, Director of the Development Tools and Ecosystem team as he discusses what he sees are the opportunities for ISVs extending Visual Studio, competing against Eclipse, and some of the cool Visual Studio extensions the community is building from auto-generating mock objects for Sharepoint to building custom games. To see SharpLudus, the Domain-specific language for building games, visit the SharpLudus home page

Doug Hodges: The history of Visual Studio Extensibility

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:54:30 GMT

Doug Hodges, a Principal Software Architect on the Visual Studio platform team, is interviewed by Ken Levy discussing the history of the Visual Studio IDE. Doug is often referred to as the father (or cool uncle) of the original Visual Studio IDE shell. The text transcript for this interview is available in the online edition of VSX edition of CoDe Focus magazine. Additional information about the VS SDK and VS Shell can be found at http://msdn.com/vsx.

Ken Levy and Aaron Marten: Visual Studio 2008 Extensibility

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:54:38 GMT

Ken and Aaron talk about the new features for extensibility in Visual Studio 2008 and the Visual Studio 2008 SDK including touching on key topics like:

- How you can build your own IDE with the Visual Studio Shell
- How you could create your own language service using Babel
- How to plug into editor features like IntelliSense for statement completion
- How to build your own "Hello World" tool Window

Anthony Cangialosi and Ken Levy: Visual Studio Gallery

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:43:56 GMT

I catch up with Anthony Cangialosi and Ken Levy from the Visual Studio Extensibility team to talk about the newly launched site for finding Visual Studio extensions, www.visualstudiogallery.com.

You'll also see Ken walk through using two cool, free extensions that you can download from the gallery, StickyNotes and the Source Code Outliner PowerToy.