VSX: Extend Your Development Experience

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, this slide is scary.

[1] http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=vsxconf&DownloadId=3139

Jean-Marc ran through an interesting demo using wizard from VS 2008 SDK to create a package and build out code to access the code view of an item in a project. The tool is available in the Visual Studio Gallery [2] and the source is available on Code Plex [3].

[2] http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionID=bea9ed59-8857-4032-9666-9af1c1a33969

[3] http://www.codeplex.com/SourceCodeOutliner