VS SDK v4 Product Backlog is ready for public review
Below I've pasted the VS SDK Product Backlog for version 4 of the VS SDK. We're planning to ship this version of the VS SDK in mid-December. This will be the last revision of the VS SDK that supports VS 2005. We'd love to get some feedback on these features and work items.
The major areas of focus for V4 are to
- enable community collaboration,
- ease component vendor pain,
- improve the user experience getting started with the VS SDK and
- get a start on some VS Orcas platform and SDK work.
Those themes drove the decisions we've made so far, but we need feedback from VS SDK users to ensure we are driving toward a successful release for V4, so please don't be shy about letting us know what you think of our plan. There is, of course, much more we'd like to do, but have to combine a lot of competing priorities and limited resources in order to come up with the best update we can for this time-frame. Your feedback helps us to understand how best to compromise on priorities and align resources.
Category |
Priority |
Feature |
Doc |
10 |
Documentation Tech Reviews I |
Infrastructure |
20 |
Checkin suites coverage improvements |
Infrastructure |
20 |
Code Coverage Improvements I |
Community |
20 |
Community Content Plan (Forum Sweep) |
Other Features |
20 |
General Bug Fixing I |
Community |
25 |
Community Content Plan (Forum Ownership) |
Component Vendor |
25 |
Component Vendor Web Control |
Component Vendor |
25 |
Component Vendor Windows Forms Control |
Power Toys |
25 |
Ship Source Outliner power toy code for community collaboration |
Component Vendor |
26 |
Component Vendor Setup |
Component Vendor |
27 |
Component Vendor Toolbox |
Community |
30 |
Community Content Plan (Webcast, Screencast) |
Iron Python |
30 |
Event generation |
Iron Python |
30 |
IP Language Service - Code window dropdowns Webcast |
Test |
30 |
Orcas VS PIA redist testing |
Other Features |
30 |
Project Aggregator 2 fixes in Orcas |
Power Toys |
30 |
Ship power toys more broadly (not just in VS SDK) |
Better OOBE |
30 |
Update Sample Browser Spec |
Community |
40 |
Community Content Plan (Blogs) |
Other Features |
40 |
General Bug Fixing II |
Better OOBE |
40 |
Getting Started Docs |
Orcas |
40 |
Orcas SDK - Ship with Orcas CTP's |
Partner Content |
40 |
Test Adapter Sample (VS IDE Host) |
Test |
40 |
Vista GDR (Beta) |
Test |
40 |
Whidbey SP1 (RTM) |
Community |
42 |
Community Content Plan (Team Chat 30 min) |
Better OOBE |
43 |
Update Setup |
Component Vendor |
45 |
Component Vendor Help Integration |
Community |
45 |
Connect VS SDK user to community shared source for PowerToys and other projects |
Component Vendor |
50 |
Component Vendor Component Versioning |
Doc |
55 |
Integrate Documentation Tools into SDK |
Samples |
60 |
Nested Project Sample (update from Archive folder) |
Other Features |
60 |
Project Systems/VSRegEx - Cloning Templates Fix |
Iron Python |
70 |
IP Project - BrowseWith context menu for HTML project items |
Other Features |
70 |
Project System Base Classes - Cancel build |
Other Features |
99 |
Dynamic Project Flavor Sample |
Test |
99 |
PPE testing of Orcas |
Other Features |
99 |
Setup/Deployment of Packages via Deployment Projects |
Other Features |
99 |
Update MenuAndCommands ref samples for ComboBox command type |
Infrastructure |
100 |
Code Coverage Improvements II |
Doc |
100 |
Documentation Tech Reviews II |
Comments
- Anonymous
September 27, 2006
Allen has posted the current product backlog that we are hoping to accomplish for the Version 4 version... - Anonymous
September 28, 2006
Can be found here. This is the last version supporting vs.net2005 <br><br>...- Anonymous
October 02, 2006
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
October 03, 2006
We have just completed the planning for VS SDK 4.0 last week. My good dev lead has posted the plans on - Anonymous
October 05, 2006
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
November 03, 2006
Allen has posted the current product backlog that we are hoping to accomplish for the Version 4 version