Indroducing Visual Studio Shell

posted by  varson (7)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I have not been making too many posts here, mostly because I have had my head down working on some new, secret tools for the past few months. Now I can talk about them because today at TechEd we announced what that new tool is, Visual Studio Shell Isolated. That is one of those fancy, descriptive names that Microsoft marketing gives to something that is quite simple, but at the same time powerful. Over the years many people have been creating packages and Add-ins for Visual Studio, but if anybody wanted to use your package, they had to have a copy of Visual Studio (pro or above) installed o