微软提供了Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.1 Beta的下载。
提供各种工具、文档、示例，以便用户为Visual Studio 2008设计、开发、测试和部署扩展，并在Visual Studio 2008 Shell基础上创建自己的工具环境。
* Significant reduction in size for Visual Studio Shell redistributable packages.
* Support for progress feedback in a chained installation.
* Visual Studio Shell development now supports normal user.
* New XML Tree Editor sample.
* Updated shell documentation.
