Channel 9: Doug Hodges talks about the history of the VSX

Doug Hodges: The history of Visual Studio Extensibility

Doug Hodges, a Principle Software Architect on the Visual Studio platform team, is interviewed by Ken Levy discussing the history of the Visual Studio IDE. Doug is often referred to as the father (or cool uncle) of the original Visual Studio IDE shell. The text transcript for this interview is available in the online edition of VSX edition of CoDe Focus magazine. Additional information about the VS SDK and VS Shell can be found at https://msdn.com/vsx .