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All Your RegKeys Are Belong To Us
I’ve been in many discussions lately with various folks about Visual Studio 2010 extensibility. Inevitably, someone sugg... more
Friday, Nov 6 by aaronmar

Extending UML designers in VS2010 Beta2
As mentioned in this post, the UML designers in VS2010 Ultimate now come with a set of APIs that makes them easy to exte... more
Monday, Nov 2 by Stuart Kent

Jean-Marc blogs about DSL Tools in VS2010 Beta2
Back from holiday (in Cyprus, 30 degrees C, very relaxing thanks), and as I suggested might happen in my previous entry,... more
Monday, Nov 2 by Stuart Kent

Empty Toolbox for DSL Tools Diagram in experimental hive
There is already a post on the forum, about that, but I feel that I need to communicate a bit more. What is the... more
Monday, Oct 26 by jmprieur

VSX Conference Day 1
Our annual VSX Conference started today, the same day we officially announced and launched Visual Studio 2010 Beta... more
Monday, Oct 19 by Quan

Replacing the Default Error Dialog in the Isolated Shell
Background: Recently one of our VSIP partners asked if it was possible to customize the default error dialog that the... more
Wednesday, Oct 14 by Ed Dore

Macro that tests for proper implementation of AutomationProperties
Background: VSPackages can offer up a set of custom properties for their Tools.Options pages, by registering the pages... more
Tuesday, Oct 13 by Ed Dore

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Tutorial: A Simple Managed Project System
Here's a preview of the new managed project system tutorial. It's written for Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio SD... more
Wednesday, Mar 12 by martintr

Walkthrough: A Basic Isolated Shell Application
This preview walkthrough shows how to integrate a custom application into the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolat... more
Friday, Dec 7 by martintr

Tutorial 2-- Creating Your First VSPackage
Here's a preview of the new Tutorial 2. It's been updated for Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Vista. The me... more
Thursday, Nov 15 by martintr

Welcome to the VSXUE Team Blog!
Welcome to the VSXUE Team blog. The VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) User Education team is also known as the Visual St... more
Thursday, Nov 8 by martintr

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VSX Forum

Native Support for PHP in Visual Studio 2010
Is there any truth to the rumor that Visual Studio 2010 will natively support PHP coding? http://www.codeplex.com/php4vs Eric... more
Friday, Nov 6 by UCSD Eric

Splash Screen w/Alpha Blending
Is it possible somehow to use a alpha blended bmp/png as a splash screen? I know NO C++, so that's no help. I just don't want to... more
Friday, Nov 6 by dawmail333

Can we fail the build and add build errors OnBuildBegin event
I'm planning to write a VS Addin for VS 2008In that can we fail the build and add build errors(on some conditions) OnBuildBegin ev... more
Friday, Nov 6 by NagaVital

Add-In: DTE2.Windows collection doesn't contain all windows?
I'm writing an add-in in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, C#, .NET 4.0. I am trying to hide all but a few windows in the IDE, in a spec... more
Friday, Nov 6 by Phlow2001

Visual Studio 2005 SDK development process, package is installed, no buttons, which give me a package installed programs, codesweep no way to use after installation, the installation program does not require the computer to install Visual Studio 2005 SDK
Visual Studio 2005 SDK development process, package is installed, no buttons(no show), which give me a package installed programs,... more
Thursday, Nov 5 by 秋风秋色

Isolated Shell: Custom Project Properties as Tool window
Hello, For my custom project type, I'd like the "Properties" option of the project to bring up a custom tool window to m... more
Thursday, Nov 5 by Salec

Visual studio .NET Documentation - flow chart
I am doing documentation for an existing .Net project. When we run the application in debug mode it will go from function to funti... more
Thursday, Nov 5 by Developer .NET

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How to: Create Solution Add-ins (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
A solution add-in can help when you have to meet system dependencies or want to minimize the usage of system resources.
Monday, Oct 26 by Microsoft

How to: Create Solution Add-ins
A solution add-in can help when you have to meet system dependencies or want to minimize the usage of system resources.
Monday, Oct 26 by Microsoft

Introducing the Visual Studio SDK (Visual Studio 2010 Beta)
An overview about how to use the tools, samples, and documentation in the Visual Studio SDK to modify Visual Studio, create new functionality that int... more
Monday, Oct 19 by Microsoft

Walkthrough: Customizing the Domain-Specific Language Definition (Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1)
Teaches how to customize a basic FamilyTree domain-specific language.
Wednesday, Oct 14 by Microsoft

Walkthrough: Customizing the Domain-Specific Language Definition (Visual Studio 2008 SDK)
Teaches how to customize a basic FamilyTree domain-specific language.
Wednesday, Oct 14 by Microsoft

Custom Editor + Custom Tool Generator
Saturday, Oct 3

Visual Studio SDK Reference (Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1)
Contains links to Visual Studio SDK API references and other reference topics.
Wednesday, Sep 30 by Microsoft

Visual Studio SDK Reference (Visual Studio 2008 SDK)
Contains links to Visual Studio SDK API references and other reference topics.
Wednesday, Sep 30 by Microsoft

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All-In-One Code Framework (简体中文)
微软一站式开发技术框架解... more
Saturday, Jun 20

Visual Studio 2010 Editor Samples
Several samples showing how to extend the new WPF-based editor in Visual Studio 2010.
Thursday, May 21

Demo Dashboard for Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 Editor extensions to allow real-time interaction between speakers and audiences u... more
Wednesday, May 20

Powershell for Visual Studio
This project enables powershell scripts developpers to write their scripts in Visual Studio
Saturday, Mar 14

All-In-One Code Framework
All-In-One Code Framework code-name CodeFx delineates the framework and skeleton of most Microsoft d... more
Sunday, Mar 1

YAML for .NET, Visual Studio and Powershell
This project is a .NET implementation of a YAML serialization/deserialization engine written in... more
Saturday, Jan 10

Young PHP Studio
YPHP aims Good PHP IDE on Windows.
Thursday, Oct 23

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Code Samples at MSDN Code Gallery

All-In-One Code Framework (CodeFx)
All-In-One Code Framework code-name CodeFx delineates the framework and skeleton of most Microsoft d... more
Monday, Oct 12

PcwTESample for VS 2008
This sample is an updated version of the PcwTESample, that fixes a number of problems with the origi... more
Friday, Oct 2

DSL Tools Home on Code Gallery
This is the official home for DSL Tools online resources on Code Gallery. Here, you will find the sa... more
Wednesday, May 20

Combobox Reference Sample Deep Dive
Deep Dive document download for the Combobox Reference sample included in the VS SDK.
Tuesday, Mar 31

Language Service in a Dialog Sample Deep Div
Deep Dive document download for the Language Service in a Dialog sample included in the VS SDK.
Tuesday, Mar 31

Multi-File Editor Sample Deep Dive
Deep Dive document download for the Multi-File Editor sample included in the VS SDK.
Friday, Mar 27

Document Designer Editor Sample Deep Dive
Deep Dive document download for the Document Designer Editor sample included in the VS SDK.
Tuesday, Mar 24

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VS Gallery - Recently Added VSX Extensions

ItaBackgroundImage
痛IDE extension to the Visual Studio Editor. Created by: 初音玲Published... more
Saturday, Nov 7

BotDetect ASP.NET CAPTCHA (English)
Difficult for bots -- easy for humans. The most mature CAPTCHA control on the market (s... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Project Management Library (Windows Forms 2.0)
Project management related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Hierarchical Data Library (Windows Forms 2.0)
Hierarchical data related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday,... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Gantt Chart Library (Windows Forms 2.0)
Gantt Chart related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday, Novem... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Project Management Library (WPF 3.5)
Project management related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Hierarchical Data Library (WPF 3.5)
Hierarchical data related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday,... more
Saturday, Nov 7

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ItaBackgroundImage
痛IDE extension to the Visual Studio Editor. Created by: 初音玲Published... more
Saturday, Nov 7

BotDetect ASP.NET CAPTCHA (English)
Difficult for bots -- easy for humans. The most mature CAPTCHA control on the market (s... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Project Management Library (Windows Forms 2.0)
Project management related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Hierarchical Data Library (Windows Forms 2.0)
Hierarchical data related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday,... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Gantt Chart Library (Windows Forms 2.0)
Gantt Chart related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday, Novem... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Project Management Library (WPF 3.5)
Project management related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday... more
Saturday, Nov 7

DlhSoft Hierarchical Data Library (WPF 3.5)
Hierarchical data related Windows client components Created by: DlhSoftPublished Date: Saturday,... more
Saturday, Nov 7

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Urban Turtle - Agile Project Management for TFS
www.urbanturtle.net is an intuitive Agile Project Management tool (plug-in) for Visual Studi... more
Thursday, Oct 29

tangible T4 Editor
With tangible's T4 Editor FREE EDITION you can author your own Code Generator via Text-Templates... more
Monday, Oct 19

Gibraltar: CEIP Framework + Error Analysis + Free Realtime Log Viewer
Collects and sends detailed error, usage and configuration information from your users to your suppo... more
Thursday, Jul 2

TeamCompanion for Outlook
TeamCompanion is an Add-In for the Microsoft Outlook that integrates Microsoft Outlook with Microsof... more
Thursday, Feb 21

DSkinLite Gui Library V3.0
DSkinLite is a powerful C++ gui library to help you develop the user interface program. It... more
Friday, Aug 28

Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework
All-In-One Code Framework code-name CodeFx delineates the framework and skeleton of most Microsoft d... more
Monday, Oct 12

MetalScroll
MetalScroll replaces the editor scrollbar with a graphic representation of the code. Created by:... more
Saturday, Oct 31

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