If you can't make my Visual Studio Extensibility session on Monday at 1:15PM, or, if you just have some Visual Studio Extensibility questions, then you want to plan on attending the Build Custom Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio - DEV08-TLC. It will be held in the Blue Theater 13, in the Technology Learning Center at 3PM, which happens to be right after my talk. Douglas Hodges, Gareth Jones, and Aaron Marten will be the speakers, and there will be plenty of Visual Studio Extensibility team members around, too. Here's the full description:
Visual Studio is not only a great set of development tools, but also an open and extensible platform for tools innovation. Extending Visual Studio can enhance your team’s development effectiveness and may also open the doors to new business opportunities. Hundreds of ISVs have been successfully building products on the Visual Studio platform for years. Several Microsoft products such as XNA Game Studio and SQL Server Management Studio are also built on this proven platform. In this chalk talk, we show you how to build your own Visual Studio integrations, including tool windows, editors/designers, and new programming languages. We also show you some of the new extensibility features coming in Visual Studio codename "Orcas". See first-hand how to extend the market-leading development tool to make it more powerful than ever!
I'll be heading down there right after my session, and you are all welcome to join me. Since arriving at TechEd yersterday afternoon, I had a lot of people coming up to me and commenting that they were looking forward to attending my VSX talk. I really didn't think that VSX was going to have the buzz that it seems to be garnering, which I think is great news for the VSX team. I know that VSX is becoming much more important as we head into Visual Studio Orcas, but I hadn't felt that the .Net community had picked up on that yet.