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In case you haven’t heard (either thru James Lau's blog or Josh Holmes' blog) I’ll be doing a webcast on Visual Studio Extensibility at 9AM Pacific time (12PM Eastern), May 3, 2007 titled: Do-It-Yourself Tools Inside Visual Studio. For those of you going to TechEd, I’ll be doing a similar session there, but that one will dive more into the coding side of writing Visual Studio extensions using the Managed Package Framework. If you want to talk about extending Visual Studio, I’ll be hanging out in the Ask The Experts area, and might even do a couple talks in one of the small auditoriums.
Over the next couple months you will see more coming out from the VS Tools Ecosystem team (who also work on VSIP), newly community called VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility). Ken Levy announced that he recently joined the VSX team as their community program manager. Ken and I go back to Chris Sells’ XML DevCon 2004, and it is good to be working with him. You may also know of Ken from his FoxPro days. There is going to be a big push on getting the word out that it is a whole lot easier to extend Visual Studio. The VSX team has really seemed to hit their stride, with the new VS SDK v4, and even getting extensibility SDK for Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1. If you are a micro ISV, or ever had some ideas to improve Visual Studio, you might want to check out the webcast and/or the VSX Developer Center. I think that there are great opportunities to make a little money building new tools that extend Visual Studio.
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I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.