Just 2 weeks ago we had Juval Löwy over for a session on WCF. Now today I got the confirmation that Ken Levy, community program manager on the Visual Studio Ecosystem team, will join us for a session on Visual Studio Extensibility.
Here's the full abstract:
Visual Studio provides a great set of development tools out of the box, and extending your platform with additional functionality brings you the benefits of the expanding VS ecosystem.
Visual Studio provides a great set of development tools out of the box, and extending your platform with additional functionality brings you the benefits of the expanding VS ecosystem.
Fasten your seat belt and get ready for a demo-centric roller coaster ride touring the end to end story around extending Visual Studio. From adding free or commercial extensions to VS like those found on our new http://visualstudiogallery.com web site, to building your own simple extensions for your own use, to distributing integrated packages to others for free, to creating a business or commercial product for VS developers, to innovating applications based on the new VS Shell royalty and license free. VSX, a shortcut name for Visual Studio Extensibility, represents the community which is a virtual and growing ecosystem that includes the VS SDK, all aspects of extending VS (packages, add-ins, macros, visualizers), .NET developers who extend VS, VSIP (Visual Studio Industry Partner) program companies, and the VS SDK team (also known as the VSX team or the VS Tools Ecosystem team).
For more information about VSX, visit the Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Center at http://msdn.com/vsx and the VSX Team Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam.
Registration is open as of now, as usual on www.visug.be.
I do want to thank Microsoft for this oppurtunity (thanks Katrien and Tom).