Barcelona, here we come!

We put on a good show last week at the VSIP Summit & Developer Conference. We had lots of attendees, lots of sessions, and lots of good food :)

We are wrapping up both the VS 2008 SDK on our team, and working with the rest of the Division to wrap up VS 2008 as well. A week from now, I will be flying to Barcelona to attend and speak at Tech Ed EMEA. I just received a mail yesterday from the organizers that they actually want me to repeat my VS Shell session! So I will be doing that session TWICE at TechEd (they haven't even scheduled when the repeat is yet), and then doing it some more at our own Dev Lab which is we are hosting right after the conference on Nov. 9 and 10. I am also involved in a Chalk Talk in TechEd EMEA.

Anyway, here are the sessions, dates and times:

TLA02-IS Discussing Various Scenarios for Customizing Visual Studio - From Visual Studio Shell to Visual Studio Tools for Applications 
Thomas Quinn , James Lau , Steve Cook
The Microsoft Visual Studio Shell offers you a framework for building custom applications on top of the Visual Studio foundation while Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) allows you integrating Visual Studio into your custom applications. Together with the rich possibilities of building custom graphical designers using Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and much more parts the Visual Studio Shell has to offer, this gives you a tremendous set of possibilities of building and customizing your applications with Visual Studio. If you want to discuss possible usage scenarios – or especially which part of Visual Studio Extensibility (Shell, VSTA, DSL etc.) fits best to your solution – then this discussion is the right thing for you! Bring your own scenarios and discuss them with our architects and developers from the Visual Studio product team! 
Fri Nov 9 09:00 - 10:15 Room 131

TLA303 Build your Own IDE with the Visual Studio Shell 
James Lau
Visual Studio Shell is a new offering in the Orcas wave of products. With this new product, tools developers can now easily build their own customized IDE on the same platform that Visual Studio is built on, royalty free. Whether you are looking to build an “Express” edition for your programming language product, or you want to build an IDE for specialized control systems, the Visual Studio Shell can help you cut costs and focus on your areas of expertise. In this session, we will walk you through how to build a custom IDE called Storyboard.NET using the Shell, that allows business analysts to draw storyboards to analyze requirements. You will walk away inspired to build your own IDE on this new platform! 
Thu Nov 8 15:45 - 17:00 Tent 2

 
I hope to see you all there! Please come say hi if you are planning to be at TechEd too. I'd love to meet you and chat more about VSX and potential partnership.

Thanks!
James