Visual Studio 2008 Shell and VS2008 SDK

I've had a couple of customers ask about using the Visual Studio Shell and given I've just stumbled upon some info about it, I thought I'd share it.

Firstly the Shell will be a free component of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK when it ships.  Initially it was (is?) available only to VSIP partners (register here), but I believe that the bits you need are generally available now.

To get started you'll want to grab the August CTP of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK (download link).

More information can be gleaned from this page.  I also recommend you keep an eye on the VSX Team Blog.

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 02, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 03, 2007
  Currently the shell as it stands in 2008 Beta 2 seems a little buggy to work with as well as light on documentation. More information is available at CoDe magazine in a special edition that is free to download. Specifically shown is how to create a RegPkg file and the process to get it shown in a standalone shell. Also the menuing system (vsct) files do not always get recompiled and built properly.

• Mark -

• Anonymous
  October 03, 2007
  Thanks Mark :-)

• Anonymous
  October 04, 2007
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