Bummer! Microsoft closed the TechNet Gallery for good in December 2020. While you can still access Microsoft’s own contributions here, all community contributions have been removed, and so have my SCSM extensions 😮
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Authoring Management Packs using the System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
For those of you who often work with management pack XML code, the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) might be a useful solution. The following features are a selection of what VSAE adds to Visual Studio:
- Management Pack project templates for SCSM and SCOM
- Support for XML fragments containing different management pack elements
- True XSD validation with IntelliSense
- Automatic sealing and MP bundling as part of the build process
- Automatic deployment of MPs to your management group
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