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Friday, October 10, 2008 10:20 PM

Wishing for dev10: Get rid of PLK, SLK, DLK and anything ?LK

Today one very annoying thing you've to do when you want to deploy your Visual Studio Package extension is to get a PLK or "Package Load Key" from Microsoft. This is a painful process which can be divided into two equally painful parts: Pain...
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Monday, September 15, 2008 3:39 AM

T4 Editor v1.0 RTM finally available!

After lots and lots of hard work I'm very proud to announce that my team shipped v1.0 of the Clarius T4 Editor today. We've been insanely struggling to get the bits finished during the last few months; you know, extending Visual Studio for simple stuff...
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Friday, August 29, 2008 2:30 AM

VSX Devcon: All about extending Visual Studio

If you are into extending the best IDE ever you already know that is not an easy task. You will find challenges all day (some days just too many of them...) and you may spend an entire day (or a couple of them...) trying to accomplish even the most trivial...
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Friday, December 28, 2007 12:51 PM

Troubleshooting GAX/GAT installation issues

For all of you out there working on Software Factories or just automating Visual Studio using GAX/GAT we've put up a small tool named GAX Troubleshooter (yes, we didn't spend much time on naming it). Upgrading versions of GAX, installing and uninstalling...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:19 AM

T4 Editor beta released!

After a few weeks of lots of hard work we were finally able to release a pretty stable release of our T4 Editor out to the community at http://www.t4editor.net . It currently support VS 2005 and VS 2008 beta 2 and has most (but not all yet) of the bells...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:25 PM

VS: simply things which are incredibly hard

There are some very clear examples out there about what I mean when I talk about VS obscurity being a major pain for getting people extending the platform and trying to make my dream come true . As a rule of thumb people should know that if demostrating...
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Monday, July 02, 2007 4:54 PM

The VSX team is listening too

I remember the time (3 years ago) when I was dogfooding latest ASP.Net bits and entering bugs like hell. I was also publicly posting most of my findings about what I did and didn't like and I always got nothing but a very good reaction from the ASP.Net...
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Monday, July 02, 2007 4:53 PM

The new VSX logo: what exactly is that thing?

It doesn't have the VS look, it doesn't have the new cool Expression-wave look... nor the Silverlight one... nor the Live one... It is... a..., it is... the new... VSX logo (disclaimer: not closing your eyes at this time may hurt them): I can anticipate...
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Friday, June 15, 2007 4:12 PM

Visual Studio SDK: Improve my productivity by removing some docs

Talking about obscure ... Take a quick look at the documentation for IVsTextManager.RegisterView method. The main description for the method reads: " Method information is not provided. " Ok... there isn't much I can guess about the method from that so...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:48 PM

“The Shell” (not a Hollywood production)

The announcement at TechEd 07 seems to have been received well by the blogsphere. For example Pablo is saying “ WOW ... finally extending Visual Studio will be much easier… ”. I’ve to admit, I don’t find this near that exciting, sorry. We have had Visual...
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