Extending Visual Studio .NET
Industry experts chat about how to extend VS.NET—what's out there, how it's being used, the problems and successes they've had.

Posted March 12, 2002

Patrick Meader, editor-in-chief of Visual Studio Magazine, moderated a panel of industry experts at VSLive! San Francisco to discuss Microsoft's extensibility and integration programs for Visual Studio .NET. Panelists included: Dr. Basim Khadim, Chief Software Architect of Languages for Fujitsu Software Corporation; Bill Fisher, CEO at Summit Software; Bill Taylor, Director of Developer Marketing, Rational Software; Dean Guida, CEO, Infragistics; Mani Gill, Senior Program Manager on VS.NET Integration, Crystal Decisions; Peter Varhol, Product Manager of the DevPartner product line at Compuware; Rich Little, President of Lead Technologies and President, Component Vendors Consortium; Robert Green, Visual Studio Lead Product Manager, Microsoft; and Steven Roth, CTO, Wise Solutions.

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