Bertan's Blog : IDE Power Toys

VSCmdShell 1.2 released

bertaygu — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:35:00 GMT

I have updated VSCmdShell homepage today to include latest release. This release is our first release where all contributions are from VSCmdShell community, you can check all the included fixes at Codeplex but here is a quick summary of them:

PowerShell RTM compatibility.
VSCmdShell window does not hang when it is hidden anymore.
International character support is added for command line host.

Resource Refactoring Tool 1.0 Release

bertaygu — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:47:00 GMT

We just released Resource Refactoring Tool 1.0 to CodePlex, you can download the release from project releases page. A summary of new and updated features in this release is below, you can see the full list of fixed issues in the release page.

Added support for web application projects.
Added option to save options for future sessions. Saved options include preview changes, which instances to refactor and last used resource file.
Added interfaces that can be implemented to add new language/project support to Resource Refactoring Tool.

Resource Refactoring Tool Beta Release

bertaygu — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:39:00 GMT

We have finished working on the beta version of Resource Refactoring and just posted it to Codeplex. Also with this release Resource Refactoring Tool became a shared source project under MS-PL, so we have published the source code as well. If you want to help development of the tool please go to Getting Started with Development section on the project site.

New features and fixes for this release are:

ASP.Net web project support for C# and VB.Net code files. However your resource file must be located in App_GlobalResources directory otherwise no code is generated for it.
You now have the option of searching for other instances of the text you are refactoring and refactor them using the same resource entry at the same time.
We have improved the preview window to view the whole file instead of just a section of it.
An issue with items under source control is fixed.
During refactoring, shortest reference is calculated by looking at imported namespaced in the codefile.

You can read more about the tool at its Codeplex project page or download the installer directly. Also I want to thank to everyone who sent feedback during the alpha release which had been really useful.

Bookmark manager tool for Visual Studio

bertaygu — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:00 GMT

One of the ideas submitted to our team for possible power toys was to implement a document bookmark manager where users can group bookmarks by groups and access them with keyboard shortcuts. While browsing the web a while ago to find out if a similar power toy was developed, I have come across DPack from USysWare Inc. which is a free collection of tools for Visual Studio. One of the tools in the collection is a bookmark manager allowing you to group bookmarks and recall them by group numbers, you can read more about the numbered bookmark feature at their product page or download DPack from the tool homepage.

Resource Refactoring Tool Alpha is released

bertaygu — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:38:00 GMT

We have just released alpha version of Resource Refactoring Tool for Visual Studio, you can download it from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=77544. In one line, it provides an easy way to extract hard coded strings from code files to embedded resource files. You can find more details about the tool at its Codeplex page. For the alpha release, we are only releasing a binary download, but for the beta version we are going to release it as a shared source project.

If you have any feedback or suggestions please use the project discussion board.

Resource Refactoring tool

bertaygu — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:29:00 GMT

Now that VSCmdShell is released, I started working on a refactoring power toy to help with converting strings in to resource files as it has to be performed manually now. It is primary feature will be to place selected string in to a resource file and replace it with the code to get that string from the resource file.

If you have any suggestions for the refactoring tool or ideas that would make it easier to work with resource files, please leave a comment to this entry.

VSCmdShell Power Toy is released

bertaygu — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:02:00 GMT

We just released VSCmdShell Power Toy for Visual Studio 2005 which enables you to integrate a shell window into Visual Studio IDE. You can find more information about the power toy and download it at its CodePlex project page. Some of its key features are:

Extensibility with different shells, currently Windows Command Shell (cmd.exe) and PowerShell are supported.
Ability to launch Visual Studio commands and Intellisense while typing Visual Studio commands.