While trying out the Guidance Automation Toolkit and especially the great Software Factories Toolkit, I’ve also installed the new version of Visual Studio 2005 SDK.

I was very pleasently surprised to find that it has such a great set of tutorials and code samples, even available through a tool like this:

I am not sure if these existed in versions prior to this one (haven’t “bumped” into them), but what I see here I really like and it helps me so much in adopting some of the technical aspects of VS Extensibility.

If you are interested in expanding on the features or Visual Studio, this is definetly a material worth taking a while to peak at.

You can download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=51a5c65b-c020-4e08-8ac0-3eb9c06996f4&DisplayLang=en

Or read about the updates in the latest release here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/garethj/archive/2007/03/02/visual-studio-sdk-v4-and-dsl-tools-update-is-released.aspx

Cheers!