Tampa Bay Teched Outcasts - June 12-16
I am really excited to be speaking on Visual Studio Extensibility during Tampa Bay TechEd Outcasts on Wednesday, June 14th, 1:30pm - 4:30pm. Apart from my entry, the other speakers are Tim Walton (WCF), Tom Fuller and Shawn Morgan (SOA in .NET ), Joe Healy and Jim Zimmerman (ATLAS/AJAX) and David McNamee (Office 12 / MOSS). All these talks are 3-4 hours and are in-depth.You need to register separately for each one of them.
The abstracts for the sessions I am presenting are as follows:
Session 1: Visual Studio Customization (Level 200) : Visual Studio Overview. Productivity Tips and Tricks. Code Snippets – Create and register your own code snippets. Project templates, Item templates - Create and use project and item templates for common project guidance.
Session 2: Visual Studio Extensibility Macros and AddIns (Level 200): Macros – Definition, Concepts, Recording and writing macros, Development Tools Extensibility Model (DTE), Writing a simple AddIn. Debugging, testing, and deploying AddIns. Wrapping a User Control as an AddIn. AddIn architecture. Best practices for AddIns.
Session 3: Extending Visual Studio with VSPackages (Level 300): VSIP Program, Visual Studio 2005 SDK Overview, Visual Studio Architecture Overview. VSPackages, Pros and Cons of Macros/AddIns/Packages, Managed Package Framework, Language Services, Project System. IronPython integration demo.
If you are planning to attend and would like me to cover anything specific, please let me know.
I'll be posting a followup after the event with the session materials.