Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 is released!

Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 has been released today and now it’s available for download!

A week ago VS Ecosystem team released a Service Pack 1 for the Visual Studio 2008 and today they completed another big deal – VSSDK 1.1. Developers who will be developing against Visual Studio Service Pack 1 now have updated tools, headers, and some new features in the SDK.

There are some notes about what is included to the 1.1 SDK release:

• Significant size reduction for Visual Studio Shell redistributable packages. The Visual Studio Shell Isolated and Visual Studio Shell Integrated redistributables are now approximately 150 megabytes smaller. The redistributables no longer carry the full .NET Framework 3.5 payload. However, they contain a bootstrapper that automatically downloads the .NET Framework 3.5 runtime if it is not installed on the target computer.
  
• Support for progress feedback in a chained installation. The Visual Studio Shell Isolated and Visual Studio Shell Integrated redistributables can now pass installation progress back to the chaining process. This lets developers display accurate progress in their setup programs.
  
• Visual Studio Shell development now supports normal user. Developing and deploying a Visual Studio Shell application no longer requires the developer to be an administrator on a Windows XP computer or to have elevated privileges on a Windows Vista computer.
  
• DSL Print Preview. The ability to preview a DSL before printing has been added to the DSL designer.
  
• New XML Tree Editor sample. The SQL Server team has provided a new XML Tree Editor sample.  The earlier sample has been removed.
  
• New TFS Samples. Two new TFS samples have been added.
  
  • VSExtensibilitySample. This new TFS sample provides an example of creating a Visual Studio add-in that interacts with the Version Control user interface of Team Explorer.  The sample comes with a detailed Word doc that provides insight into the requirements of such an add-in.
    
  • RichClientCustomControl. This new TFS sample provides an example of creating Work Item Tracking custom controls that work within Team Explorer.  The sample comes with a detailed Word doc that provides insight into the requirements of custom controls as well as a separate document that describes how to write custom controls that can be used within the Team Server Web Access environment .
    
• Updated Shell documentation. Documentation about the Shell has been added.
  

The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 can be downloaded here.

Keep in touch and happy extending!

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VS 2008 SDK 1.1 RTM is coming...

Good news! Yesterday Visual Studio Team released the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 as well as .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Great! But even more cool is that the matching VS 2008 SDK 1.1 RTM will be coming next week!

Read more details and links related to these service packs:

MSDN: Visual Studio 2008 Development System - Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

Somasegar's WebLog - Service Pack 1 for VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 released!

VSX Team Blog - Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Now Available

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Ed Dore's VSX samples from closed GotDotNet website

I hope Ed won't mind about the re-posting here in my blog his great VSX samples I've downloaded from currently closed GotDotNet website when it was alive. (Ed, in case you want me to remove them from here, just let me know).

So there are the following samples available:

HierAnarchy Sample Package (HierAnarchy.zip, 37k)
Sample MPF based Visual Studio Package written in CSharp. This sample demonstrates how to create a Solution/Server Explorer type toolwindow. It also implements a very minimalistic IVsUIHierarchy interface, and just enough properties to actually display a few nodes in the VsUIHierarchy's tree control.

MyErrors Sample Package (MyErrorsPackage.zip, 39k)
Sample Visual Studio Package written in C#; that illustrates using an ErrorListProvider to participate in the ErrorList ToolWindow. This package implements a toolwindow from which you can add ErrorTask objects to the ErrorList ToolWindow.

TBEdit Sample Package (TBEdit.zip, 37k)
Sample Visual Studio Package written in C#; that implements a custom editor based on a UserControl that supports several logical views via a tab control.

MPEdit Sample Package (MPEdit.zip, 43k)
Sample Visual Studio Package written in C#; that illustrates creating and hosting the Visual Studio Core Editor, VsCodeWindow as a child control, in a managed user control based editor.

CWTool Sample Package (CWTool.zip, 43k)
Sample Visual Studio Package written with C#; that illustrates two techniques for creating and hosting the Visual Studio Core Editor, VsCodeWindow as a child control, in a managed toolwindow.

AllowParams Sample Package (AllowParams.zip, 38k)
Sample Visual Studio package that illustrates how to leverage the ParametersDescription property on OleMenuCommand objects, in order to support the ALLOWPARAMS flag on commands defined in the package’s .CTC resource.

Find CommandBar Sample Package (FindCommandBar.zip, 58k)
My description: Sample Visual Studio package that illustrates how to retrieve a Visual Studio CommandBar using IVsProfferCommands.

DSRefViewer (DSRefViewer.zip, 29k)
My description: Actually, I don’t know what does the package illustrates. Just look at the code yourself! :)

Keep in touch and happy extending!

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