Visual Studio Extensibility

This page has moved to the new Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Center at http://msdn.com/vsx.

The Visual Studio Software Development Kit (SDK) includes tools, documentation, and samples for developers to write, build, test, and deploy extensions for Visual Studio. Create your own add-ins and packages using the Visual Studio automation model or software development kit (SDK).

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VSX Team Blog Join the growing VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) developer community. Visual Studio 2008 Shell Details This article covers the features and customization points contained in the Visual Studio Shell, as well as what to download and how to start building your own Shell instance. Domain-Specific Language Tools Included in the VS SDK, DSL Tools enable the construction of custom graphical designers and the generation of source code using domain-specific diagrammatic notations.	VS SDK Documentation Reference the VS SDK documentation online in the MSDN Library. VS Integration Guided Tour Learn more about the VS SDK and VSX by taking the Guided Tour. Visual Studio 2008 Shell Overview A streamlined Visual Studio development environment, the Visual Studio Shell provides the core foundation so you can focus on building your application's unique features. VSX CoDe Focus Magazine Microsoft sponsored this special edition of CoDe Magazine on the topic of VSX.	"How Do I?" Videos for VSX Learn how the Visual Studio Extensibility framework lets you build a totally custom integrated development environment (IDE). VSX Videos Learn how to customize and extend Visual Studio, tailoring it to fit your specific development requirements or leverage it to integrate with your offering. VSX Webcasts See how the Visual Studio SDK allows you to build a totally custom IDE. You can add your own functionality by creating templates, macros, and packages.	Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 SDK for Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2008 Shell (Isolated) This redistributable package contains the runtime binaries needed to deploy your Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) based application. Visual Studio 2008 Shell (Integrated) This redistributable package contains the runtime binaries needed to deploy your Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) based application. Visual Studio 2005 SDK 4.0 SDK for Visual Studio 2005.

VSX FAQ Blog created for scenario based resource references
We just created a new VSX related blog called the VSX FAQ blog. We will be posting new entries and updating existing ones on the VSX FAQ blog as needed.  We have over 100 VSX FAQ topics with links already created and currently being review more

VSX Community Letter for March 2008
This month's letter includes a summary of our new Visual Studio Gallery website we launched a few weeks ago, the updated VSX developer center, information about what the VSX team has been working on in the past few months, event news on VSX, some new VSX more

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 released
PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 is now available for free download, along with source code and a readme document. PowerCommands, is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE.The more

Visual Studio Gallery announced
The Microsoft Visual Studio Ecosystem team has officially launched the new Visual Studio Gallery site at http://visualstudiogallery.com/. This new web site is a resource center for all Visual Studio extensions and includes everything from free VS PowerToy more

VSX Developer Center 2.0
The Visual Studio Extensibility Developer center at http://msdn.com/vsx has been updated with a new interface. The site now has its own stand-alone center with independent navigation pages on VSX via the tabbed navigation (Library, Learn, Downloa more

Visual Studio 2008 Extensibility Overview

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