: Visual Studio 2005 IDE Extensibility (January 19, 2005)

: Visual Studio 2005 IDE Extensibility (January 19, 2005)
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Extensibility (January 19, 2005)

Posted February 11, 2005

Please note: Portions of this transcript have been edited for clarity

Introduction

Andy Q (Moderator):
Welcome to today’s chat. Our topic is Visual Studio 2005 IDE Extensibility Questions, comments, and suggestions are welcome.

Andy Q (Moderator):
We are pleased to welcome our Experts for today’s chat. I will have them introduce themselves now.

Dr eX [MSFT] (Expert):
Dr. Ex was born gifted and he wrote his first addin when he was only 3. Then he decided to pursue a career in sports and after the college he was drafted as a wide receiver for one of the top teams in NFL. Name of which will not be disclosed. After he won 3 superbowls in a row in his fourth season he dropped a pass from his quarter back and that was it. He retired and decided to join Microsoft to help customers with Extensibility customer questions. Since that day he has not dropped a single question coming from the customers. And now here he is to answer your questions...

(Ignore the NFL piece. He is just another fellow VS extender with noble intentions to help.)

Craig Skibo [MSFT] (Expert):
Hello, my name is Craig Skibo. I am the developer and co-designer of the Automation object model, the Community Content Installer, Template Wizard, and the Template Export Wizard. I have been at Microsoft for nearly 9 years, working on VC 4 through the current version of Visual Studio. I am co-author of the MSPress book Inside Visual Studio 2003, and I given talks at the last 5 PDC conferences, and the past 3 TechEds discussing topics such as the Automation Model and the VSIP SDK.

Doug Hodges [MSFT] (Expert):
Douglas Hodges is the Architect for the Visual Studio .NET IDE. Douglas has worked at Microsoft for almost 14 years and has spent most of that time in the Developer Tools Division. Originally he was one of the lead developers on the OLE2 project and is an expert on OLE and COM. Douglas has been one of the architects for Visual Interdev 1.0, Visual Interdev 6.0 and Visual J++ 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003. Throughout his career at Microsoft he has concentrated on the design of extensible, component-based software.
These efforts have lead to the creation of the extensible Visual Studio .NET development environment and the open, 3rd party Visual Studio Integration Program. Prior to Microsoft, Douglas worked on CAD/CAM software and as a consultant specializing in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. Douglas has a ME from Carnegie Mellon and a BSE from University of Pennsylvania.

jledgard_ms (Moderator):
Hi, I'm Josh Ledgard. I work on the "Devdiv Customer Connection Team". I run the Powertoys blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/powertoys and "moderate" several GDN worskpaces for VS Addins.

Dennis Minium [MSFT] (Expert):
I'm Dennis Minium, lead PM on Visual Studio Team System. This chat is really about IDE extensibility, not Team System extensibility, but I'm hanging out just in case.

Chetan C [MSFT] (Expert):
Hi, I'm Chetan Chudasama and am a Tester for VS Extensibility.......