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We shipped again! Here is the VS SDK 4.0 December CTP!

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Hey fellow developers,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that our team has just released the VS SDK 4.0 December CTP. You can go download this immediately from the here.

 Here are the highlights to this release:

  • New Toolbar Combo Box sample - demonstrates how to add various types of combo boxes to the IDE toolbar.
  • Updated Toolbox Installer Package sample - now also demonstrates how to integrate with Help for component vendors. 
  • Updated Setup - Help documentation is now an optional component. You can save time during the Setup by choosing not to install local Help and use the online Help instead.
  • IronPython Web site & Web Application Project sample improvements - IntelliSense works better within script blocks, setting breakpoints, jumping to error location from build errors, etc. 
  •  Various DSL Tools bug fixes

Try it out and let us know what you think. I need to warn you about a known issue about this release though. In this release, we are installing the IDE Test Host Adapter as part of the VS SDK Setup. This allows you to create integration tests for your VS Packages. However, for this feature to work properly, you will need to have one of the Visual Studio Team System SKUs. We missed putting in a check for this in the Setup, so Visual Studio will complain about it on startup if you have the Professional edition or below. But the error dialog is completely harmless and you can just tell it not to load the IDE Test Host Adapter add-in and it won't bug you again.

This is our last release in 2006.  We will be releasing VS SDK 4.0 RTM early next year.

 Here is a picture we took today at our team's little holiday celebration :)

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  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2006
    vs.Eco We shipped again! Here is the VS SDK 4.0 December CTP! VSSDK 4.0 12월 CTP가 나왔습니다. 새 툴바 콤보 박스 예제

  • Anonymous
    December 11, 2006
    Where is it? The link points to ver 3.

  • Anonymous
    December 15, 2006
    As Soma announces , service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 with a lot of bug fixes and integrated WAP

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2007
    The latest VSSDK available at the MSDN download page is v3.0. Is there another location?

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2007
    Currently, we only put up final release (RTM) quality SDK on the Microsoft Download Center. For CTP releases, you will need to go to http://www.vsipmembers.com. Once you sign in with your Windows Live ID, click on "Download Files", and you can find it under "Visual Studio 2005 SDK 4.0"

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2007
    Thanks for your efforts on this!  I do, however, have a request:  Can you please work on the documentation for the Visual Studio SDK?  Especially on creating Managed Package.  It seems like the only documentation is the samples, and some of them are pretty complex (e.g. the IronPython project type).  Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2007
    Thanks for the new release! But I must say that Visual Studio is still too difficult to extend, far too complex and it lacks some functionality known in Java IDE's. You should really look at the Eclipse platform - the whole IDE design is much simpler to extend, and it has some functionality, such as incremental compiling, that I really miss in the VS, and it seems that it is not going to be included in next versions (or I just couldn't find information about it anywhere). And it's not only my impression - my colleagues, who work in company that actually produces tools for both Java and C# developers, say that extending VS is a nightmare comparing to Eclipse...

  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2007
    Its Really fantastic... Go On

  • Anonymous
    January 21, 2007
    Jordan, Thanks for your comments. I just wanted to make sure you see the documentation for MPF at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb166554(VS.80).aspx The IronPython sample is a huge sample and it is more complex to go through. We are continuing to work our documentation to make it better! Thanks for your support.