The Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.1 Beta includes tools, documentation, and samples for developers to design, build, test and deploy extensions for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta. You can also use the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta to create custom tools environments based on the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta Shell. Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 is supported for express editions.

What Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta Includes

Significant reduction in size for Visual Studio Shell redistributable packages: The Visual Studio Shell Isolated and Visual Studio Shell Integrated redistributable’s are now approximately 150 megabytes smaller. The redistributable’s no longer carry the full .NET Framework 3.5 payload. However, they contain a bootstrapper that automatically downloads the .NET Framework 3.5 runtime if it is not installed on the target computer.

Support for progress feedback in a chained installation: The Visual Studio Shell Isolated and Visual Studio Shell Integrated redistributable’s can now pass installation progress back to the chaining process. This lets developers display accurate progress in their setup programs.

Visual Studio Shell development now supports normal user: Developing and deploying a Visual Studio Shell application no longer requires the developer to be an administrator on a Windows XP computer or to have elevated privileges on a Windows Vista computer.

New XML Tree Editor sample:The SQL Server team has provided a new XML Tree Editor sample.

Updated shell documentation: Addition documentation about the shell has been added.

Source : Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Program Manager

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