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VSXtra goes to VSX DevCon 2008

I have just got the news from Microsoft that my enrollment for a session at the VSX DevCon 2008 was accepted. The conference is held between September 15 and 16 in Redmond. The VSXtra community project: Driving toward a new Visual Studio Managed Package...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:25 AM by inovak

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LearnVSXNow! #27 - Multiple Tool Windows

Anyone extending Visual Studio meets with tool windows, sooner or later implements one. The extensibility architecture of Visual Studio supports multiple instances of the same tool window type. However, we rarely can see VSPackages using this feature...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 2:29 PM by inovak

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PowerCommands with VSXtra

You could see from my blogs and LearnVSXNow articles that I am a fan PowerCommands ( PowerCommand Deep Dives: Part #19 , Part #20 , Part #21 ). I love this utility for both the functionality it offers and for its source code full with values. I decided...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 8:23 AM by inovak

Filed under: VS 2008, VSX
LearnVSXNow! #26 - Services — with no-code service initialization

In the LearnVSXNow series I treated Visual Studio Services several times. In Part #5 ( Basic VSX Ideas ), I dealt with the basic concepts of services. In Part #9 ( Refactoring to a Service ) I shared some ideas about how to create and use a global service...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 8:05 AM by inovak

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Planned VSXtra sessions on VSX DevCon 2008 and TechEd 2008 Developers

In the last six weeks I worked a lot on creating a better Managed Package Framework for Visual Studio. Now my former imaginations seem to realize: using the state-of-the-art features of the .NET Framework can dramatically improve the VSX development experience...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 6:53 AM by inovak

Filed under: VS 2008, VSX
Announcement: VSXtra Runtime v0.2.0.12 (alpha) released!

My experimental VSXtra project reached the second (alpha) release. This version has the following new features: CommandDispatcher class to create command handler methods without the need of writing IOleCommandTarget methods or registering OleMenuCommand...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2008 5:06 PM by inovak

Filed under: VS 2008, VSX
My whitepaper about Visual Studio Extensibility

In a few months ago I worked on an online whitepaper about Visual Studio Platform and Extensibility. I created this paper for those developers who want to start extending Visual Studio or just simply interested in a few facts about how VS is architected...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2008 8:35 AM by inovak

Filed under: VS 2008, VSX
LearnVSXNow! #25 - Advanced VSCT Concepts: Behind Combos

In Part #18 I gave you a very short overview about combo boxes in the context of VSCT files. In that article I promised you to give a detailed overview about declaring and using combo boxes. Nowadays beside LearnVSXNow I’m working on my other project...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 2:52 PM by inovak

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LearnVSXNow! #24 - Introducing VSXtra

If you have read my posts in the LearnVSXNow series, you can feel that I am not really satisfied with the Managed Package Framework. In a week ago I started a new project on CodePlex called VSXtra . This is an experimental project to create an improved...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 3:20 PM by inovak

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VSXtra goes to VSX DevCon 2008

LearnVSXNow! #27 - Multiple Tool Windows

PowerCommands with VSXtra

LearnVSXNow! #26 - Services — with no-code service initialization

Planned VSXtra sessions on VSX DevCon 2008 and TechEd 2008 Developers

Announcement: VSXtra Runtime v0.2.0.12 (alpha) released!

My whitepaper about Visual Studio Extensibility

LearnVSXNow! #25 - Advanced VSCT Concepts: Behind Combos

LearnVSXNow! #24 - Introducing VSXtra