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WDriven - Use Word Templates to Integrate with TFS Server
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WDriven is a Microsoft WORD document template integrated with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. It enables you to communicate and collaborate on Visual Studio 2005 Team System projects from within Microsoft Word. Through VSTS Smart Tags, you can add...
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Consolas - a New Font for the Visual Studio 2005 Editor
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Consolas, a cleartype font designed specifically for to make code more readable is now available for download for users of Visual Studio 2005 from the Microsoft Download Center . Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances...
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PureText 2.0 to cut out pasting to notepad
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I downloaded this time-saving utility after reading about it in Duncan Mackenzie's blog (Removing Word's Formatting from text before pasting into .Text or other apps...). I put applications on a two-week probation period before choosing to keep them or...
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Free Wizard to Create C# Typed Collections in VS 2003
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Via the mailbag… We used something similar to this tool when making our automation libraries for Whidbey. It comes in handy when you work with lots of collections. Page: http://www.geekproject.com/tools.aspx#9 Description This is a wizard...
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If I had to rename this blog, what would you call it?
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Hi all, I’m Sara Ford , a Program Manager on the Developer Solutions team. I’m going to be helping Josh with this Power Toys blog. On my personal blog, I asked the question What sort of tools would you expect to see under “Power Toys for Visual Studio...
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First set of Power Toys for Visual Studio released by the Developer Solutions team
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Check out the Developer Solutions team's blog for the latest information on Power Toys for Visual Studio. MSBee MSBee is an addition to MSBuild that allows you to build managed apps in VS 2005 that target .NET 1.1. Download MSBuild Extras – Toolkit...
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HelpStudio Lite to Author Help Content in VS 2005
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From the MSDN Forums... The VS 2005 SDK contains a new tool for authoring Help and integrating it with VS 2005. The tool is called HelpStudio Lite. It is lightweight version of the full HelpStudio product, developed by Innovasys . HelpStudio Lite...
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FlashControl to add Flash in Asp.Net 2.0
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From the mailbag... FlashControl is a simple way to include Flash movies in your ASP.NET 2.0 projects ! This free server control can be added in Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox so you can just drag and drop it in your aspx pages. FlashControl manage all...
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Treemap Visual View of Hard Drive Contents
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Not exactly developer related, but I was having a lot of fun just seeing what's taking up so much of the space on my laptop this Holiday season. This tool is great for doing just that and a little bit of early spring cleaning. http://www.win.tue.nl...
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PageMethods: Well-defined URLs for your ASP.NET sites and applications
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Via Fabrice PageMethods for Visual Studio 2005 has just been released. This version offers the same support as the version for VS 2003, plus some additional features. PageMethods proposes a new code model that enables well-defined URLs and simplifies...
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CoolCommands Refference Manager for Visual Studio 2005 RTM
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I ported CoolCommands to visual studio RTM CoolCommands includes: - Reference Manager - Collapse All Project, Command Prompt Here, Open Project Folder, Demo Font and Wheel Font Zooming The Navigation Window power tool it is not included probably in the...
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RE: Paint.NET, the open source MS Paint killer
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Not exactly developer related, but this is the best free lightweight imaging tool I've found. I've been using it for the last year, but this post on download squad reminded me that I should post it here. Josh [Via Download Squad ] Okay...
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Right Click -> New Microsoft Visual Studio Solution
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Via Robin Curry File this one under “Why didn’t I think of that?!” Peter Provost created a ShellNew extension for Visual Studio Solutions to allow you to right click and add a new solution to any folder without the heavy-handed way Visual Studio...
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CR_Documentor - Another Code Documentation Utility
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Via Paraesthesia Lutz Roeder, a fantastic developer of ultra-helpful tools, took his "Documentor" application - which allowed a developer to preview what XML document comments would look like rendered into end-user documentation - down from his...
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QuickdocViewer Add-In for XML Comment Viewing
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Via the mailbag I discovered a tool that's pretty complimentary to the VBCommenter . The Quickdoc Viewer is an add-in module for the Microsoft Visual Studio.net IDE which offers a simple WYSIWYG XML to HTML previewer for XML based documentation comments...
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Snippy - Edit and Create VS 2005 Code Snippets
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Via VS Editor Team: We have released a new powertoy Snippy . It is a Code Snippet editor that will allow you to create new code snippets or modify existing ones. Please let us know if you have any problems installing or using it. There are two versions...
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Windows Clippings 1.0 for Cleaner Screen Grabs
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over 8 years ago
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Kenny Ker recently posted a tool that generates window screen grabs with JUST the window and none of the background for the window . Getting ‘clean’ images of these windows can be hard if the background does not match whatever color you will be rendering...
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VS 2005 Wish - Use MSBuild for VC++ Projects without VCBuild???
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This blog has been pretty quite of late and I would attribute that to many tool vendors ramping up plans around the upcoming release of VS 2005. We at Microsoft are no exception. In the last few days I've heard of numerous "aftermarket solutions"/powertoys...
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gotdotnet CodeGallery for ongoing Sample Sharing and Development
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Via Korby I am proud to announce the public release of CodeGallery , the newest member of the gotdotnet family. Gotdotnet.com is the community website where professional Windows and .NET developers from around the world can contribute and consume code...
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VS Content Installer Power Toys
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Via Craig The first release of the VS Content Installer Power Toys are now available. You will need a recent build of VS (I tested with the August CTP, but the July version may also work) to use these tools. Remember, they are still a beta build, so...
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VC++ Powertoys from GDN
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I don't know how I missed these, but there exists a collection of VC++ powertoys on the GDN site. The full descriptions are found in this document , but I've copied them down here as well. Name - Description Delta - Watch a directory (either local...
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DPack 2.2.0 - Global Bookmarks, Improved Code Browsing, Code Stats, etc
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Via TECHQUICK My buddy Sergey has released a new update to DPack . Here’s what’s new and changed in this release: Added global bookmarks option to Numbered Bookmarks feature. Global bookmarks work on the whole solution as oppose to individual...
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Merge Multiple .NET Assemblies into One with ILMerge
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Someone from MSR forwarded me the link to ILMerge. It lets you combine multiple assemblies into one without opening up the source code. Enjoy - josh From the ILMerge Site ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies...
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RE: ASP.NET Development Helper
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From the Powertoys mailbag. This is a cool IE add-on that adds some helpfull information to IE when you are debugging your web apps. - josh A few weeks ago, I got a question about the WebResources feature not doing its expected client-caching as...
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Snippet Editor for VB.NET 2005
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This is pretty cool. Add your own customized snippets to the VS. 2005 snippet Library. I'm just waiting for someone to download the source from the workspace and put these snippets into RSS feeds to be consumed in VS from blogs. :-) josh The .NET...
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