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Architecture Explorer and Directed Graph Document video
30 September 08 01:32 PM | AllenD | 1 Comments   
Check out Suhail Dutta's Channel 9 video/demo of the Architecture Explorer and DGML documents . He starts with Directed Graph via the Architecture Explorer then goes into the Sequence Designer (generating UML sequences from code) and Layer Designer (validating Read More...
The VS 2010 cat is peeking it's head out the bag - so to speak
29 September 08 04:22 PM | AllenD | 2 Comments   
Check out the article on VS 2010. The screen shot there is my feature! The new Architecture Explorer and features related to it have been my main focus for the last 18 months. It's great to see it getting more light of day. A longer article contains a Read More...
Back on Oahu
23 September 08 11:32 AM | AllenD | 1 Comments   
After a nice week in Redmond (weather was great through Wed, but turned nasty Thu - Sat) I'm back home in Honolulu. The company meeting was a great experience once again. I always get a charge out of seeing how big Microsoft is in terms of financial success, Read More...
What's up with Allen
16 September 08 02:27 PM | AllenD | 1 Comments   
I can't believe it's been a year without blogging. That's got to change... starting today. If you've read my blog in the past you know that I moved to Hawai'i in May of 2007. While still with Microsoft I helped to get a small office opened up in Honolulu, Read More...
Orcas first, then Rosario
01 October 07 10:02 PM | AllenD | 2 Comments   
In case you are unaware, we're close to shipping Visual Studio 2008 (aka "Orcas"). I hope that's not really a suprise. A bit of trivia on the code name "Orcas". When when VS 2003 came out the code name was "Everett". Everett is the name of a town just Read More...
Aloha VS SDK
14 May 07 08:25 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   
I've been working in the VS Extensibility area for quite a few years now. But the time is right for me to venture forth into a new area of responsibility for Microsoft. I'll be helping to form a new team based in Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA. Microsoft is opening Read More...
Check out the VS SDK for VS "Orcas" Beta1
30 April 07 10:36 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   
Last week we released the VS SDK for VS "Orcas" Beta1. You can use this lastest version of the SDK to build VS Integration packages and DSL Tools-based packages that target VS "Orcas" Beta1. To get this version of the VS SDK requires access to the http://www.vsipmembers.com Read More...
RDT changes in VS Orcas
16 March 07 09:15 AM | AllenD | 1 Comments   
The Running Document Table is used in VS to control the state of opened documents. This is only accessible via interfaces exposed in the VSSDK and the VS Automation Model. End-users only see the effects of the RDT in places like the dialog that pops up Read More...
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MPPG/MPLEX runtime DLL not needed
07 March 07 11:39 PM | AllenD | 1 Comments   
I was recently alerted to an email sent to Soma (Vice President leading the Microsoft Developer Division) about a problem with the VS SDK's MPPG/MPLEX tools. Here's the question: After installing VS SDK (feb 2007) and trying to play with the managed parser Read More...
VS SDK 4.0 is available for download
01 March 07 11:58 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   
On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, I am pleased to announce that after months of hard work, VS SDK 4.0 has been released! This is the last SDK release planned for Visual Studio 2005. The team has done a ton of work to make this release friendly Read More...
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V4 SDK (almost) ready!
19 February 07 04:29 PM | AllenD | 2 Comments   
We're putting the final touches on the v4 VS SDK for VS 2005. The team and I have been hard at work ensuring it is at a high level of quality. The content is out of this world. There's a few new samples to start with, a new SDK browser connecting you Read More...
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Hola! Barcelona is a VS SDK hit!
08 November 06 04:05 AM | AllenD | 1 Comments   
My first trip to Europe is turning out to be great! The city of Barcelona is great. Many attractions to see, lots of nice things to do. Sunday and Monday this week the VSIP team conducted a Developer Lab with lots of great presentations and 1:1 meetings Read More...
VS 2005 SP1 Beta
09 October 06 09:58 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   
If you author a package or add-in for VS, we encourage you to download the VS 2005 SP1 Beta in order to determine if there are any modfications to your package or add-in that need to be done in order to be compatible. It is very likely that there is nothing Read More...
VS SDK v4 Product Backlog is ready for public review
27 September 06 05:13 PM | AllenD | 6 Comments   
Below I've pasted the VS SDK Product Backlog for version 4 of the VS SDK. We're planning to ship this version of the VS SDK in mid-December. This will be the last revision of the VS SDK that supports VS 2005. We'd love to get some feedback on these features Read More...
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V3 of VS SDK for VS 2005 now released
15 September 06 11:41 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   
You can visit the VS Extensibility portal for the latest information and resources. Follow the links to get the SDK (note there's now an easier way to download at the bottom of this mail). Some really cool things in this release: Power toys (Check out Read More...
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