Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta
As Quan To and other members of Visual Studio Ecosystem team have written, today Microsoft shipped the Beta version of Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1.
You would know that Microsoft shipped the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 right after the official release of Visual Studio 2008 with some new features and enhancements for Visual Studio 2008 that primary targeted new Visual Studio Shell technology.
It's regular for Microsoft to ship multiple versions of Visual Studio SDK for a Visual Studio version so the progress for the next version just started after the release of version 1.0. Now after the official announcement of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, they ship the first Beta of version 1.1.
Visual Studio SDK is a set of tools and code samples that assists developers with Visual Studio Extensibility and automation. This new Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta comes with some new features that primarily target Visual Studio Shell and its enhancements.
This SDK reduces the size of Visual Studio Shell redistributable packages for isolated mode and integrated mode that are the prerequisites for all the machines that need to host these applications. These packages don't carry full .NET Framework 3.5 anymore. Moreover, there is a change in development requirements for Visual Studio Shell development and you no loner need to be a system administrator in order to develop Visual Studio Shell applications. As I've written in my book, in Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 you need to be an administrator to develop such applications.
Beside these, there are also new documentation for Visual Studio Shell as well as new sample for XML Tree Editor by SQL Server team included in Visual Studio SDK 1.1 Beta. Of course, this is a minor release in comparison with Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0.
You can download this new version from here and get started with it.
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