AllenD's WebLog
Hello Profiling
As most of you know corporate reorganization is bound to happen sooner or later. At Microsoft it...
Date: 08/25/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Tech Preview - Available Now
Did you catch the announcement at Mix today about Windows Phone 7 Series Development? Scott Guthrie...
Date: 03/15/2010
Nice Video on Standard Dependency Graphs in VS 2010 Ultimate
Chris Lovett posted a video on using the Dependency Graphs feature of VS 2010 on his blog:...
Date: 10/20/2009
VS 2010 Beta2 has been launched
Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 page on MSDN. I added a countdown...
Date: 10/19/2009
What is 'Progression'?
I've been working on Progression for the past 2 years, but there's not a very good definition that's...
Date: 10/02/2009
Beta2 of VS2010 is almost ready
The Progression team has been hard at work getting the final touches on the Beta2 release of VS...
Date: 08/20/2009
Aloha Oahu
In late January I boarded a plane with my family and one-way ticket to Seattle. Yes, the family and...
Date: 02/27/2009
Architecture Explorer and Directed Graph Document video
Check out Suhail Dutta's Channel 9 video/demo of the Architecture Explorer and DGML documents. He...
Date: 09/30/2008
The VS 2010 cat is peeking it's head out the bag - so to speak
Check out the article on VS 2010. The screen shot there is my feature! The new Architecture Explorer...
Date: 09/29/2008
Back on Oahu
After a nice week in Redmond (weather was great through Wed, but turned nasty Thu - Sat) I'm back...
Date: 09/23/2008
What's up with Allen
I can't believe it's been a year without blogging. That's got to change... starting today. If you've...
Date: 09/16/2008
Orcas first, then Rosario
In case you are unaware, we're close to shipping Visual Studio 2008 (aka "Orcas"). I hope that's not...
Date: 10/02/2007
Aloha VS SDK
I've been working in the VS Extensibility area for quite a few years now. But the time is right for...
Date: 05/14/2007
Check out the VS SDK for VS "Orcas" Beta1
Last week we released the VS SDK for VS "Orcas" Beta1. You can use this lastest version of the SDK...
Date: 04/30/2007
RDT changes in VS Orcas
The Running Document Table is used in VS to control the state of opened documents. This is only...
Date: 03/16/2007
MPPG/MPLEX runtime DLL not needed
I was recently alerted to an email sent to Soma (Vice President leading the Microsoft Developer...
Date: 03/08/2007
VS SDK 4.0 is available for download
On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, I am pleased to announce that after months of hard work,...
Date: 03/01/2007
V4 SDK (almost) ready!
We're putting the final touches on the v4 VS SDK for VS 2005. The team and I have been hard at work...
Date: 02/19/2007
Hola! Barcelona is a VS SDK hit!
My first trip to Europe is turning out to be great! The city of Barcelona is great. Many attractions...
Date: 11/08/2006
VS 2005 SP1 Beta
If you author a package or add-in for VS, we encourage you to download the VS 2005 SP1 Beta in order...
Date: 10/09/2006
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...
Date: 09/27/2006
V3 of VS SDK for VS 2005 now released
You can visit the VS Extensibility portal for the latest information and resources. Follow the links...
Date: 09/15/2006
VS SDK docs are now on MSDN web site
Check out the VS SDK documentation on the web! No longer are the VS SDK API's only doc'd with the VS...
Date: 09/08/2006
VS SDK on Vista
I've finally gotten around to trying out the VS SDK on Vista with UAC turned on. Here's what I had...
Date: 06/23/2006
TechEd - The rest of the story
My apologies at not blogging more often, but TechEd became even more of a blur in the last days and...
Date: 06/19/2006
TechEd - Day 2
Tuesday was an extremely full day. Partner meetings continually, booth duty for a large part of the...
Date: 06/14/2006
TechEd Day 1
This is day one of the event. We're in full swing now. On the bus ride over the guy directly behind...
Date: 06/12/2006
TechEd Day 1
I just arrived after a lazy morning. Since the demo station is open today until 9:00pm, I figured...
Date: 06/12/2006
TechEd Day 0
Yesterday was the first day of TechEd for me. Did a tour of the TLC (technical learning center)....
Date: 06/12/2006
TechEd 2006 - Power To the Pros - Boston
I'll be at TechEd this year. Please stop by the VS Extensibility booth for info on extending Visual...
Date: 06/05/2006
Extensibility Contest
On May 15th there's a Visual Studio Extensibility contest being held. It runs 'til July 31st. More...
Date: 05/09/2006
How to get a VS Package to load
I was asked this question this morning and figured that I should share the answer more largely in...
Date: 05/04/2006
VS SDK V3 Starts Today
We begin version 3 of the VS SDK supporting VS 2005 today! Over the last few weeks after releasing...
Date: 05/01/2006
VS SDK V2 Has Been Released
I'm proud to announce the availability of the V2 VS SDK supporting VS 2005. This SDK is awesome. It...
Date: 04/17/2006
V2 of the VS SDK almost ready to ship
We're putting the final touches on the build of the v2 VS SDK for VS 2005. This is a totally...
Date: 03/30/2006
Webcast Today
I'm doing a webcast today. (Sorry, it starts in 15 minutes!) The session is on the Managed Package...
Date: 01/24/2006
PLK's, Supporting Multiple Versions of VS with a single VS Package
I got a question today after some confusion regarding Package Load Keys for Visual Studio and how to...
Date: 11/07/2005
VS SDK (Oct 2005) for VS 2005 now posted
I'm very pleased to announce the availability of the Visual Studio SDK for Visual Studio 2005. VSIP...
Date: 11/02/2005
PDC Day 4 - Miles and miles
The last day of the conference... It's always so strange on the last day of a conference. Everyone...
Date: 09/16/2005
PDC Day 3 - Domain Specific Languages - the future of Modeling
Bob Muglia's General Session - Windows Server... I just got out of Bob Muglia's keynote and it was...
Date: 09/15/2005
PDC Day 2 - When the police ask you to get out of the vehicle, please get out of the vehicle
I'm writing this on Thursday morning (day 3), but I wanted to post what happened yesterday... Day...
Date: 09/15/2005
Meet the team time change
If you saw my earlier posts on meeting the team, I've just updated them. The time to meet the...
Date: 09/14/2005
PDC Day 1 - Power Outages and Uploads
Well, yesterday was very eventful. Just after my previous post, we broke for lunch and just as we...
Date: 09/13/2005
PDC Schedule
Here's my schedule as of Monday morning: Item Location Day Start Finish Speaker Sessions PRE14 -...
Date: 09/12/2005
PDC Day 0 - Precon
Hello. I'm sitting in 501ABC for the PDC05 Preconference Session on Visual Studio Extensibility. If...
Date: 09/12/2005
VSIP Dev Lab
We just completed another Dev Lab on the Microsoft campus. This is an event for partners to bring...
Date: 08/26/2005