VS SDK V3 Starts Today
We begin version 3 of the VS SDK supporting VS 2005 today! Over the last few weeks after releasing V2 of the VS SDK, the VS SDK team has been planning the V3 release. I've posted a list below of all the things we wanted to investigate for possible inclusion in the V3 release. All of the features have costs (implementation, documentation, testing, etc) and it comes down to priority and available resources if a feature makes it into the SDK.
We'd love your feedback on our plans. If you see something that doesn't make sense to you, please let us know. The priority listed below is the planning priority (how important it was to plan the feature or infrastructure improvement), not the delivery priority (how important it is to deliver a feature or infrastructure improvement). When the delivery priority has been determined (always subject to change, of course), we'll let you know.
| Planning Priority | Feature Item |
| 0 | Infrastructure - Release tools checkin automation |
| 5 | Infrastructure - MSI building/signing steps |
| 10 | .Net managed language integration tools |
| 10 | Integrate DSL Final Toolkit |
| 10 | Test Adapter Sample (VS IDE Host) |
| 10 | Update SDM content |
| 10 | Update TFS content |
| 10 | Update VSTS Developer Edition Content |
| 10 | Update VSTS Test Edition content |
| 10 | Use DevDiv MadDog/SourceDepot sync'g |
| 15 | Addressing Bugs that are preventing 100% test pass % |
| 15 | Wizard template updates ( Editor and other improvements ) |
| 20 | Code Coverage Improvements |
| 20 | Orcas Enabling tests to run on Orcas |
| 20 | Orcas SDK - Convert 1 sample to Orcas |
| 20 | Orcas SDK - Infrastructure - Setup refactoring into Platform and SDK components |
| 20 | Orcas SDK start-up |
| 20 | Orcas Setup Arch |
| 20 | Partner Team Process Document Update |
| 20 | Sample Browser - Color improvements |
| 20 | Sample Browser - logo bitmap low-res |
| 20 | Servicing for Project Aggregator 2 |
| 20 | Team Process Document Update |
| 20 | Web Project sample phase 1 |
| 20 | Web Project sample phase 2 |
| 20 | Web Project sample phase 3 |
| 20 | Web Project sample phase 4 |
| 25 | All appropriate Testing in Exp hive instead of regular |
| 30 | “How to integrate with VS” for external SDKs sample phase 1 |
| 30 | “How to integrate with VS” for external SDKs sample phase 2 |
| 30 | IP - icons |
| 30 | IP - splash screen |
| 30 | Orcas SDK - Whidbey Samples - DDSuites |
| 30 | Whidbey SP1 SDK work |
| 40 | Community - Channel 9 |
| 40 | Enable code gallery contributions to sample browser |
| 40 | Investigate cloning, starter kit or templates for Package samples |
| 40 | Project System Base Classes - Cancel build |
| 40 | Project System Base Classes - Features |
| 40 | Project System Base Classes - Persisted Properties in User files |
| 40 | Project system reference sample C# |
| 40 | Project system reference sample C++ |
| 40 | Project Systems/VSRegEx - Cloning Templates Fix |
| 40 | Redistribute Help2.0/Dexplore |
| 40 | Sample Browser - keyword search |
| 50 | Adding Overviews to Archive Samples |
| 50 | Adding Samples to Sample Browser |
| 50 | Additional Contractor Powertoys |
| 50 | Additional Contractor Samples |
| 50 | Infrastructure - Setup refactoring into functional area components for change isolation |
| 50 | Release tool Cleanup - reduce potentially objectionable phrases exemptions |
| 50 | Rolling build system improvements or VSTS dogfooding for CI build |
| 50 | VSTS Dogfood |
| 55 | IronPython - Investigate cost of implementing refactoring commands (Rename, Extract method, etc) |
| 60 | IP Language Service - Code window dropdowns |
| 60 | IP Language Service - Collapsible Regions |
| 60 | IP Language Service - Smart Indenting |
| 60 | IP Language Service - Smart Tags |
| 60 | Namespace.exe converted to Whidbey razzle build |
| 60 | Setup Refactoring |
| 60 | Text marker explorer sample |
| 70 | Infrastructure - Testing Tool Integration |
| 70 | Setup improvements for caching MSI's |
| 70 | SQL reporting services |
| 70 | VS Package Item Wizard |
| 90 | Update Orcas Package Wizards to use VSCT |
| 90 | Wizard UI Framework |