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WDriven - Use Word Templates to Integrate with TFS Server
WDriven is a Microsoft WORD document template integrated with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. It...
Date: 08/15/2006
Consolas - a New Font for the Visual Studio 2005 Editor
Consolas, a cleartype font designed specifically for to make code more readable is now available for...
Date: 05/09/2006
PureText 2.0 to cut out pasting to notepad
I downloaded this time-saving utility after reading about it in Duncan Mackenzie's blog (Removing...
Date: 03/30/2006
Free Wizard to Create C# Typed Collections in VS 2003
Via the mailbag… We used something similar to this tool when making our automation libraries...
Date: 03/20/2006
If I had to rename this blog, what would you call it?
Hi all, I’m Sara Ford, a Program Manager on the Developer Solutions team. I’m going to be helping...
Date: 03/10/2006
First set of Power Toys for Visual Studio released by the Developer Solutions team
Check out the Developer Solutions team's blog for the latest information on Power Toys for Visual...
Date: 03/08/2006
HelpStudio Lite to Author Help Content in VS 2005
From the MSDN Forums... The VS 2005 SDK contains a new tool for authoring Help and integrating it...
Date: 01/20/2006
FlashControl to add Flash in Asp.Net 2.0
From the mailbag... FlashControl is a simple way to include Flash movies in your ASP.NET 2.0...
Date: 01/13/2006
Treemap Visual View of Hard Drive Contents
Not exactly developer related, but I was having a lot of fun just seeing what's taking up so much of...
Date: 12/30/2005
PageMethods: Well-defined URLs for your ASP.NET sites and applications
Via Fabrice PageMethods for Visual Studio 2005 has just been released. This version offers the same...
Date: 12/07/2005
CoolCommands Refference Manager for Visual Studio 2005 RTM
I ported CoolCommands to visual studio RTM CoolCommands includes: - Reference Manager - Collapse All...
Date: 11/29/2005
RE: Paint.NET, the open source MS Paint killer
Not exactly developer related, but this is the best free lightweight imaging tool I've found. I've...
Date: 11/29/2005
Right Click -> New Microsoft Visual Studio Solution
Via Robin Curry File this one under “Why didn’t I think of that?!” Peter Provost created a ShellNew...
Date: 11/05/2005
CR_Documentor - Another Code Documentation Utility
Via Paraesthesia Lutz Roeder, a fantastic developer of ultra-helpful tools, took his "Documentor"...
Date: 11/03/2005
QuickdocViewer Add-In for XML Comment Viewing
Via the mailbag I discovered a tool that's pretty complimentary to the VBCommenter. The Quickdoc...
Date: 10/25/2005
Snippy - Edit and Create VS 2005 Code Snippets
Via VS Editor Team: We have released a new powertoy Snippy. It is a Code Snippet editor that will...
Date: 10/04/2005
Windows Clippings 1.0 for Cleaner Screen Grabs
Kenny Ker recently posted a tool that generates window screen grabs with JUST the window and none of...
Date: 10/03/2005
VS 2005 Wish - Use MSBuild for VC++ Projects without VCBuild???
This blog has been pretty quite of late and I would attribute that to many tool vendors ramping up...
Date: 09/28/2005
gotdotnet CodeGallery for ongoing Sample Sharing and Development
Via Korby I am proud to announce the public release of CodeGallery, the newest member of the...
Date: 08/31/2005
VS Content Installer Power Toys
Via Craig The first release of the VS Content Installer Power Toys are now available. You will need...
Date: 08/18/2005
VC++ Powertoys from GDN
I don't know how I missed these, but there exists a collection of VC++ powertoys on the GDN site....
Date: 08/15/2005
DPack 2.2.0 - Global Bookmarks, Improved Code Browsing, Code Stats, etc
Via TECHQUICK My buddy Sergey has released a new update to DPack. Here’s what’s new and changed in...
Date: 07/19/2005
Merge Multiple .NET Assemblies into One with ILMerge
Someone from MSR forwarded me the link to ILMerge. It lets you combine multiple assemblies into one...
Date: 05/16/2005
RE: ASP.NET Development Helper
From the Powertoys mailbag. This is a cool IE add-on that adds some helpfull information to IE when...
Date: 05/16/2005
Snippet Editor for VB.NET 2005
This is pretty cool. Add your own customized snippets to the VS. 2005 snippet Library. I'm just...
Date: 05/05/2005
Visual Studio 2005 beta cleanup tool
Need to spread the word about this. - josh Wow, did you know that there is a Visual Studio 2005...
Date: 05/05/2005
CodeXchange Snippet Sharing Community for Visual Studio
I really believe good rich client interfaces to online communities are going to be big. Why should...
Date: 04/25/2005
If you use Regular Expressions, you need to check out this Regex Builder tool
One of my coworkers in Visual Studio has created this really cool tool for creating and testing...
Date: 04/15/2005
Check out VisualStudioHacks.Com
Via James Well, it is finally ready to go. VisualStudioHacks.com is the companion site for Visual...
Date: 04/07/2005
Happy Birthday to our Friends @ SharpToolbox
Fabrice has been aggregating all sorts of Developer productivity enhancing tools for just over two...
Date: 03/29/2005
Go Back Visual Studio Add-in
https://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GoBackAddin.asp [Via .Avery Blog] The Go Back Add-in provides a...
Date: 03/23/2005
VBCommenter 1.2.5 FINAL Released for Adding XML Comments to VB.Net
I continue to be impressed by the people from the community that step up and make serious...
Date: 03/19/2005
Read Blogs Without Leaving Visual Studio
Jon, the creator of SharpTools, sent me mail to let me know about his latest creation... a plugin...
Date: 03/19/2005
VS Editor Font Zooming like Word
Via https://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2005/02/14/372645.aspx "A very big thank you to Henrik...
Date: 02/22/2005
Automatic Build Dependencies (ABD) add-in for VC project in .Net 2003
Another mailbag entry from Lionel. "I just put together an add-in for visual studio 2003 that sets...
Date: 02/22/2005
Codehound - Developer Search Engine with VS Add-In
Via jtobler "Another great source-code finding search engine is Codehound. For DotNetters, Codehound...
Date: 02/11/2005
Cool New Whidbey File Commands
These all look pretty cool and I really like what Gaston did earlier for the VS 2003 file tab...
Date: 02/04/2005
MaxiVista: More than Just a Good Product Name
So I've been trying out MaxiVista for a few weeks now and have some impressions that you may or may...
Date: 01/24/2005
"Hello Computer"; A Visual Studio add-in for Programming by Voice
Not sure how useful this is in practice. I have a hard enough time getting voice recognition to work...
Date: 01/19/2005
C# Programmable Calculator
This one comes from Eric through the mailbag: https://www.personalmicrocosms.com/html/cspcalc.html...
Date: 01/19/2005
BuildOne to Make Builds More Efficient
Just got mail about this add-in. Looks like a good time saver if you work with large multi-project...
Date: 01/14/2005
XML Visualizer for Visual Studio .NET 2003
Michael Bouck sent me mail about a cool "holiday project" add-in he was working on to create a...
Date: 01/10/2005
WSCF 0.4 "Web services Contract-First, for real"
We featured the WsContractFirst Add-In in an earlier post, but Christian let me know they have a...
Date: 12/27/2004
Free Visual Studio Partner Product DVD
I should have covered this a long time ago, but I was reminded today by Brian that we offer a free...
Date: 12/16/2004
Poor Man's Bracket Matching Macro
David sent me mail about his "Poor Man's Bracket Matching Macro". (Click link for Macro Code) From...
Date: 12/06/2004
CodeShare Addin for your Enterprise
Nauman sent me mail about his latest VS Addin that can be used to share code snippets across your...
Date: 12/06/2004
MZ-Tools 4.0 the "all-in-one" add-in for VS .Net 2002 and 2003
Via The Daily Grind "MZ-Tools 4.0 for Visual Studio .NET - I used MZ-Tools for VB6; it's a great set...
Date: 12/01/2004
DevMetrics 2.0 Released: Software Metrics for C#
Dan, from Anticipating Minds, let me know that they have recently released version 2.0 of the tool...
Date: 11/24/2004
Process Explorer from Sysinternals
I guess I never listed the Sysinternals tools here because I sort of assumed that even if you have...
Date: 11/24/2004