As mentioned in an earlier post, I'm on the DDCPX team here at Microsoft. Within that team, I'm working in the Aftermarket Solutions group, which is responsible for MSBee along with our tools we're preparing. Consequently, as we complete tools, we're eager to begin development on new ones. Thus, I'm asking you if there are any tools you'd like to see us produce. Specifically, have you been using Visual Studio and thought to yourself, "Gee, I was there was something that did X"? That X is precisely the thing that we want to hear about. As an example, I was recently working with FxCop in Whidbey and discovered that FxCop didn't provide a way to get summary data (violation breakdowns by components, rules, rule types, etc...). Thus, I wrote a tool that reads FxCop XML files, displays the total number of defects, and can present the data in an Excel spreadsheet for easy viewing.

So, if there are any tools that you'd like to see from us, please add a comment to this post with your idea. Additionally, if you think the FxCop tool I mentioned would be useful for you, please post a comment as well.