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Gaston Milano posted a VSIP based Xaml viewer for Whidbey . "Features: Right click in xaml files to call to the viewer. Switch from viewer to associated file Show errors in output window and task list, so you can go to the line with double click. Call...

A personal entry for me. Today I reached the end of my intended roadmap and released version 1.2 of the VBCommenter addin . The VBCommenter is an addin for VS 2003 that gives you the ability to automatically generate XML comment headers in the VB .NET...

By popular request ... Guidelines are visible column indicators for the VS Editor. For more info on how to enable them, check out http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2004/11/15/257953.aspx Note: I've spent lots of cycles testing these on Visual Studio...

Found Via DotNetBoy ... www.koders.com - Open Source Code Search Engine You'll want to be careful about how you leverage the results you get in any project, but I love the concept. Google for code that searches nothing but code. I entered "RSS" and searched...

Official Site: http://www.axosoft.com/products/powertrack.aspx Official Line: "This Must-Have Add-In for Visual Studio.NET 2002/2003 gives software developers the ability to track projects, defects and features without ever leaving the Visual Studio IDE...

This looks pretty cool - Josh Web Site: http://www.add-in-express.com Quick Description: " Add-in Express is completely based on the rapid application development paradigm, installs several .NET or VCL components, and adds to IDE several wizards. The...

Via Adapdev.com: Zanebug is an advanced unit testing application for .NET. It supports existing NUnit tests, performance metrics, multiple test iterations, in-depth error information, pass / fail stats, perfmon integration, result graphing, etc. Web Site...

Via Matt Hawley : "I was reading this weeks Code Project newsletter, when I came across an updated article named Versioning Controlled Build . The description so eloquently puts it: "A Visual Studio add-in that automates AssemblyVersion control." One...

Ian wrote a cool VS 2003 plugin that makes comments in code more readable. From the Site: "Comment Reflower is a Visual Studio .NET 2003 Plugin to reflow the text in comments in source files to have even word wrapping. It does more than simply just wrapping...

Rido sent me mail about this macro this morning. "I've written a macro that sets the project configuration options to a NUnit Test project, so you can debug without "Attach to a process". I think you could add it to your Macro list: " Check it out: http...

Earlier this month I let you know about a macro that converts code to HTML for use on web pages or blog posts. Since then Colin sent me a link to his "Wordless" tool for accomplishing the same thing . The users reviews for Colin's tool are pretty positive...

The Quote: Safari’s Visual Studio Help Integration (VSHI) tool lets you search across Safari’s online repository of over 2000 technical titles to find exactly the example or code fragment you need to answer the question at hand. Best of all, these results...

If you've ever created an add-in for Visual Studio .Net you know that, for first timers, the "COMness" of generated template code and our Extensibility model can be a steep learning curve. Recently, Jon Schwarts sent me highlighting their SharpTools add...

Sure... I think the Whidbey Class Designer rocks. But you don't have Whidbey today, so you might be interested in a class building utility like this one from Mod2Software . Check it out here: http://www.mod2software.com/ProductPages/cbu.htm "This program...

Via .Avery : " Code -> HTML in VS.NET - Cory comes up with a cool macro to send your code to word then back to your clipboard. Quick HTML formatting for your code." It's been a while since we've posted an interesting Macro to the Powertoys blog. This...

I'll admit... I've never been a scripting junkie. I've only dabbled in perl. Even if it takes me twenty more lines of code I will struggle to put out a C# version of what I'm after. If you are like me, then this tool will probably sound good to you. From...

I’m going to try something new today… a pseudo review/comparison of two similar add-ins that people recently mailed me. Please let me know if you are interested in this style more in the future or if it was even helpful. I’ll remind readers of this blog...

We covered Notepad2.exe before, but Don sent me his " NotePad++ " application to try. The main differences I've seen between the two is that notepad2 seems to launch a little faster on my machine, but notepad++ supports a multiple document tabbed interface...

Christian, an RD from thinktecture sent us mail about thier WSContractFirst Add-In . From the Add-In Description : http://www.thinktecture.com/resources/software/wscontractfirst/default.html "Maybe some of you know that I am a big believer in contract...

I blogged about the 1.0 release of this tool that was called " WebDeploy ". Well, it's grown up a lot with a 2.0 version. Matt has been doing a great job of taking in a TON of user feedback and even ran a contest for people to rebrand it . Good Times...

Via Roberdan : http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/ The Web Accessibility Toolbar is provided by the Accessible Information Solutions (AIS) team at the National Information and Library Service (NILS), Australia . Please read the Terms of...

Out of the mailbag Sergey, from Usysware, sent along this collection of free add-ins for your downloading pleasure. * Code Browser add-in - dialog based file/project member browser * File Browser add-in - dialog based solution file browser * Framework...

Another one I found Via Roy . Mohammed developed, what is essentially, a visualizer you can use with VS 2003 today to get a view of items in a dataset while you are debugging. Enjoy! The web site: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DSWatch.asp

Sure, in Whidbey you'll have the all powerfull MSbuild solution, but FinalBuilder looks like a pretty cool solution you can use today. Roy likes it . :-) From the Web Site: http://www.atozedsoftware.com/finalbuilder/ Software projects are inherently complex...

I found this one submitted as an entry to the contest . It's simple, does just what it says it will do, and makes organizing larger code files with regions a whole lot easier. I was doing this recently with the VSCmdShell project and this add-in save...