Visual Studio Shell (integrated mode) does not contain any programming language, so it provides the perfect foundation to deploy a development environment for your own language.
free plug-in from Developer Express Inc., in partnership with Microsoft, that enables Visual C++ developers to simplify and re-structure source code inside of Visual Studio 2005, making it easier to read and less costly
discusses the behavior changes in Visual C++ 2005 that can cause code that worked in a previous release to either not compile, or to behave differently at run time.