Expert: Visual Studio advances could necessitate additional .NET framework training

4/2/2010 1:31 PM

IT professionals and .NET developers have seen numerous advances in the technology available to them over the past several years, and Kathleen Richards of Visual Studio Magazine writes that the .NET extensibility module in the latest version of Visual Studio offers still more flexibility.

According to Richards, "Visual Studio 2010 also introduces VSIX deployment, a container model for extensions that's based on the Open Packaging Convention (OPC). OPC is used in the Microsoft Office System Open XML specification, which is supported in Office 2007 apps and other Microsoft software. It stores the extension and metadata about the extension - including manifest and payload - in a standard .ZIP file."

This feature, says Richards, has some .NET developers worried that they will have to completely rework their existing add-on programs so that they will work with the new system.

If this is the case, only extensive retraining on the very latest versions of the software will make the process happen any more quickly, experts say. However, such training could bring carryover benefits beyond that of simplifying the upgrade process.

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