The Developer PowerToys site is a "work in progress" directory of cool utilities and tools developed by Microsoft and the community that are meant to improve developer productivity. Currently, on this site, you will find the original list of Powertoys...

At TechEd the VS Extensibility team held a “feature cook-off” where the audience was given choices of new features and the team had to code them live in 45 minutes. One of the features chosen was a VS language service that recognized regular...

Do you want to be a part of this cool VSIP package that allows you to annotate your source code and share your comments with other team members? If so Dr Extensibility (Dr eX) has a great project for you and him to build. Visit here for more information...

I would describe this add-in as “External Tools on Steroids“, but Richard, from PocketNerd explains it in more detail below. - Josh I first built the tool a couple of years ago so that i could add my own functionality to the...

The Bootstrapper Manifest Generator was created to make it easier to create custom packages for Components (PreRequisites) in Visual Studio 2005 (Beta 1). One of the powerful aspects of the Generic Bootstrapper that is built into Visual Studio .NET...

When it rains it pours. I found this in my inbox this morning and it looks pretty cool. Here is the description from Alvaros AutoCode v2.0 is an Add-In for Visual Studio .net that enables AutoComplete for any language in Visual Studio .net. Generated...

Spices.VSIP.Net delivers full features set of Spices.Net into Visual Studio, now you can expand you development - analyze, build, obfuscate, debug, verify and deploy your apps with Spices.Net. Check it out here: http://www.9rays.net/cgi-bin/components...

Another one from the mailbag via Dan! devAdvantage beta 2.0 is now available for free download and use. devAdvantage performs C# code analysis to automate code reviews. Unlike other code analyzers devAdvantage allows you to quickly correct any coding...

This one comes from Austin out of our mailbag. Thanks - Josh I got tired of using the F7, Shift-F7 key shortcuts for toggling the Design and Source code windows. So I wrote this little macro. It works a little differently for ASP.NET files...