Aaron MartenVSX (Visual Studio eXtensibility) for Newbies<br/>All postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights.Lang .NET Videos Down- February 29, 2008 FYI...Jimmy has an update on where the Lang .NET videos went. The company hosting the server reported a 5,000% increase in traffic when the videos were posted online!http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/29/lang-net-videos-down.aspx VSX Videos on Channel 9- February 27, 2008 Yesterday, Ken Levy and I sat down with Dan from Channel 9 to have an unscripted discussion about Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) (including finding a bug live during an untested, on-the-fly demo!). We also discussed creating your own Visual Studio Shell and show off how to add a new package to a VS Shell application, among other things. Check it out: Ken and Aaron discuss VSX In another video, Anthony and Ken also show off the Visual Studio Gallery that was announced this morning: Anthony.http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/27/vsx-videos-on-channel-9.aspx Visual Studio Gallery- February 27, 2008 Soma has just announced, the new Visual Studio Gallery. The gallery is the central location where you can find (and advertise) Visual Studio extensions. All you need to add an entry on the gallery is a Windows Live ID, so if you have a freeopen-source extension, don't hesitate to help end users locate it via the gallery. Even if you don't have any products to advertise, it's still a great place to discover both free and paid extensions for Visual Studio. For example, check out the free...http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/27/visual-studio-gallery.aspx Creating a VSPackage with F- February 25, 2008 Ever since Mattox Beckman introduced the OCaml language to those of us lucky enough to be in his "Languages and Compilers" course back at UIUC, I've had an interest in functional languages. A few months ago, Soma announced that Microsoft will be turning F (a variant of OCaml that runs on .NET) into a fully supported product. Since then, I've been meaning to try and see if I could create a simple VSPackage using F and get it loaded and working in the IDE. I'm pleased to report that this is...http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/25/creating-a-vspackage-with-f.aspx Painting Bug in Visual Studio 2008 SDK Browser- February 20, 2008 There's a nasty bug in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK browser (i.e. the app you can use to browse the samples, etc...) which can cause it to not be restored from "minimized" andor cause big ugly red "X"s all over the place. This will be fixed in the next release of the SDK. In the meantime, if you hit this problem, you can workaround the bug by running the following from a command prompt: "%VSSDK90Install%SdkBrowserMicrosoft.VisualStudio.Sdk.Browser.exe" resethttp://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/20/painting-bug-in-visual-studio-2008-sdk-b... Lang .NET Talk- February 20, 2008 A few weeks ago, Carl Brochu and I had the incredible opportunity to speak at the 2008 Lang .NET Symposium that was hosted here on the main Microsoft campus (alongside some much more well-known folks in the software industry). Our talk was titled "Integrating Languages in the Visual Studio Shell" and covered the basics of adding your own custom language to Visual Studio. We also demonstrated the array of possibilities around creating a custom-branded IDE with the Visual Studio Shell. If you're..http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/20/lang-net-talk.aspx FREE Visual Studio 2008 for College Students via DreamSpark- February 19, 2008 A few years ago, back when I was in college, there was an academic program from Microsoft (I don't remember what it was called) where you could get Windows and the Academic version of Visual Studio by going to the CS department office, checking out some CD's, and hoping that you didn't need to reinstall after you had to return them. This morning, Microsoft is announcing a new program called DreamSpark that allows students in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France,.http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/19/free-visual-studio-2008-for-college-stud... VSX Group on Facebook- February 8, 2008 In case any of you passionate VSX developers out there also happen to be on Facebook, you might want to check out the VSX Group. It doesn't seem to be being used for much at the moment, but it is another way you can connect with other folks also extending Visual Studio.http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/07/vsx-group-on-facebook.aspx Remember to reset your Experimental hive- February 7, 2008 If you open and build one of the samples in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, and see the following error, DON'T PANIC (and don't forget your towel). Failed to retrieve paths under VSTemplate for the specified registry hive. This is a build error you will see if the Experimental hive has not been set up for your user account on the machine. To resolve the problem, simply do the following: From the Start Menu, run Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK -> Tools -> "Reset the Microsoft Visual Studio...http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronmar/archive/2008/02/07/remember-to-reset-your-experimental-hive... |