Visual Studio Gallery gets some Social love… (which is only legal in a few states…)

Anthony @ MS - The Visual Studio Gallery gets a little more community friendly

“Over the last few months the Visual Studio Gallery has been growing as the one stop shop for Visual Studio Extensions. We launched the Visual Studio Gallery with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and in just three months we’ve gathered 600 extensions.  It has been great to see just how well recieved this site has been.

Today we release a new set of needed features that will improve the appeal of the Visual studio Gallery.

• Users can now contribute their own ratings on the quality extensions they’ve tried
• Visitors can optionally provide a detailed review about the extensions.
• We’ve added a Review Tab were visitors can sort through the various reviews on an extension
• The “Was this review helpful” lets other browsers sort credible reviews from the rest
• Authors of an extension now get aggregate information about the ratings of their extension
• Last we jazzed up the category & search results page giving a better summary of the matching extensions

Sign in and start reviewing the extensions you've used so far.  …

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Anthony gave me the heads up (because I’m way behind on my feeds… stupid work… ;) that the Visual Studio has gotten some community and social goodness added into the mix.

Plus, there looks like they have more stuff coming soon (like RSS feeds… Yea! )

I’ve already made my voice heard and have started rating some of my fav’s.

 

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