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September 2008 - Jeffrey Schlimmer's Blog
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Today the WS-DD Oasis technical committee convened to start standardizing the Devices Profile for Web Services, WS-Discovery, and SOAP over UDP. It was like coming home to rub shoulders with the committee members at a reception this eventing. This community...
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The last session of the conference was a happy menagerie of speed talks. Aggiorno: Improving the web one tag at a time. Cleans up HTML source (and will show you what it did). http://www.aggiorno.com/ Atalasoft: Imaging (pictures, scanners) tools for ...
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Bravo to the VSX team for inviting István Novák who articulately speaks to the importance of the developer experience and the limitations of the current Managed Package Framework. Small coverage of Core IDE services Requires a lot of plumbing...
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Fasten your seat belts. Pablo Galiano demoed creating a VS command, creating a tool window (using solution and project hierarchy information), and creating a tool window (using the file code model / CodeClass). The demos were very code focused, albeit...
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In the category of make-your-daily-life-better, Laura Petersen showed two wonderful extensions to the VS debugger. First, the DTE object that deserves much attention. DTE.Debugger gives you programmatic (macro (VB)) access to everything you can do with...
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The special topics track started on Day 2 with too-modest-to-introduce-himself and Michael Lehman who dove into the deep end with "software factories" and that domain's cute vocabulary (e.g., "unfolding a blueprint"). As near as...
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Doug continued, bravely, into the late afternoon with details of the Visual Studio extensibility architecture. It's not that I don't love COM, but what I want most after this deep dive is the moral equivalent for the managed developer. Meme: There's...
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Doug Hodges, one of two original architects who built the first, extensible IDE shell from MSFT (Visual Studio 6.0), took up the challenge of two, back-to-back afternoon sessions and launched into "fundamental" (lower-level) architectural concepts...
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I didn't catch this talk (because I was enjoying Doug's history), but you might want to review it if: (a) You're interested in the "T4" templates used to generate code at the back end of the DSL story. (b) You wonder about getting...
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James K. Lau walked through a heroic effort to eviscerate Visual Studio 2008 so you can re-use the shell to build your own IDE. Absolutely amazing. Together with the DSL support, this makes fabuluous strategic sense -- after all, here's a way to build...
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Can't recommend either yet, but both have been called out at the conference as resources for those who learn best from a book. Visual Studio Extensibility , Keyvan Nayyeri, Wrox Press: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-Visual-Studio...
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I'm sorry the link to the slides has a long license agreement. VSX is a new conference. It will get better.
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I didn't catch this talk by Gabor Ratky. I was little less interested in macros and lighter-weight add-ins, but when I looked at the slides, I realized I made a mistake. At the very least, learning more about the Design Time Extensibility/Development...
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After a break for lunch, Jean-Marc Prieur took the stage again, and explained the recent Domain-Specific Language (DSL) support in Visual Studio 2008 SDK. First, to show that it is easy, he built a simple DSL with a "graphical syntax" (box and...
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Jean-Marc Prieur started off the introductory track with a fairly high-level presentation with two highlights for me: First, honestly, there's a nest of extensibility options in Visual Studio. Check out Slide 11 of the presentation [1]. Seriously...
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