Microsoft has released Version 4 of the Visual Studio 2005 Software Development Kit, enabling developers to build custom tools, editors, designers, languages and other extensions for the company's ...

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Version 4 of the SDK “takes the Visual Studio SDK and makes it easier for people to start building integrations into Visual Studio,” Marini said.

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 SDK has been reduced to 10MB, a tenfold reduction from the 100MB size of the predecessor Visual Studio 2008 SDK, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday.