Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 released!

I am pleased to announce that following right on the heels of Visual Studio 2008 release on Monday, we have just released Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 yesterday afternoon! The download can be found on Microsoft Download Center here.

Aside from being the official SDK that targets VS 2008, the key features in the VS 2008 SDK include:

• Visual Studio Shell development support
• Enhancements in Domain-specific Language tools
• New VB support for Visual Studio Package development and testing
• Code samples and documentation covering toolbox controls integration, general IDE integration, Domain-specific Languages (DSL), Team Foundation Server extensibility, Data Designers extensibility , and other areas
• Support for RANU in Windows Vista.

In addition, we have also posted the following:

• Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode) redistributable package
• Visual Studio Shell (integrated mode) redistributable package

These downloads enable customers to freely deploy either a customized or non-customized version of the Visual Studio IDE along with their tools.

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 26, 2007
  Is the VSTS 2008 TFS SDK available? The Visual Studio 2008 SDK does not seem to contain TFS SDK API document. Thanks.

• Anonymous
  November 27, 2007
  Jason - I believe the plan was to include TFS documentation in the SDK but I see that it appears to be missing from this release.  I'm checking with folks on my team to understand what's going on and will post another comment as soon as I learn more.   Jeff

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2007
  Jason - after working with the SDK further, I have found the TFS SDK documentation.  If you load up the SDK docs, you'll see on the main page a link to "Team Foundation Server SDK".  Clicking on that link you should go to the docs you're looking for.   Alternatively, you can find all of this online as well:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130146(VS.90).aspx. Hope that helps! jeff

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2008
  Jeff: I have a VSTS 2008 TFS work group CD image file (i.e. en_visual_studio_team_system_2008_team_foundation_server_workgroup_x86_x64wow_dvd_X14-29253.iso). When you start install this file, a installation window shows. On the left page is a list of documents and software. When you select a document on the left page, only the "View" button is enabled. Does this mean that each time I want to view a document, I must go througth this installation file or bookmark its url in the browser? I remember that VSTS 2005 TFS document has local installation version, which is quite convenient when you want to reference a class and its methods. Does not VSTS 2008 TFS have a local installed document version? Or I have the wrong installation file? Thanks

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2008
  Jeff: I tried the link that you gave above (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130146(VS.90).aspx). It redirect to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms123400(VS.90).aspx, which shows the content retired. Could you point me to a lastest working url please? Or is the site temporarily down? Thanks

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2008
  Jason - thanks for your note about the broken URL.  I'm having folks on our side look into this as we speak and I'll post again when I hear the resolution of their investigation.   Thanks, jeff

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2008
  Jason - as our documentation manager, this is like a bad dream and what you're seeing is definitely broken.  We're in the process of tracking this down with the MSDN team but it may take us a bit to recover.  I'll post again when we've restored these docs online.  In the meantime, the VS2005 SDK docs for TFS are still applicable as we didn't change interfaces between TFS 2005 and 2008. jeff

• Anonymous
  January 09, 2008
  Here's a link to the TFS 2005 SDK docs for those of you that need to use them in the interium: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130146(VS.80).aspx