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May 2004 - Posts

Threat Modeling Tool Posted

I've seen Micheal talk about security a number of times and it's always entertaining as well as informative. Today he announced the availability of a new threat modeling tool. We have to create threat models for just about every VS feature these days Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:41 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

Updated Features and new links for the Smart Paster

I've updated the Smart Paster entry based on new information from Alex. This is why I'm working towards getting a site where community authors can update their own information in the collection :-) Anyway, check it out... http://weblogs.asp.net/powertoys/archive/2004/05/21/136882.asp Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:13 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments
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Point and Test NUnit integration for Visual Studio.NET

A little more testing to start the week. Via NUnitAddIn : “Point and Test NUnit integration for Visual Studio.NET. The aim of this project it to simplify testing and debugging using the NUnit framework inside of Visual Studio.NET.” Check it Read More...
Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 12:42 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

"Paste As.." in VS.NET with Smart Paster Add-In

The pic and post from Alex really says it all. Installed! Alex, you should submit this to the Add-in contest. [Via Alex Papadimoulis ] I don't know about you guys (and gals), but I often find myself pasting large string literals (SQL queries or dialogs) Read More...
Posted Friday, May 21, 2004 1:40 PM by Powertoys | 6 Comments

Easy Multi-Threaded Design in VS via an Add-In

[Via Michael Harsh ] One of the prototyping guys at MS, Roland Fernandez, has created a VS.NET 2003 add-in to make multi-threaded programming easier. The premise is that you write your app just as you normally would if it was all running on the UI thread, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:47 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

Snippet Compiler - Write and test snippets of code outside of VS without saving

[Via VSData Team Blog ] One of the things people like about VS2005 is that you can create projects and not save them until you hit, er, File/Save. Keeps you from getting those WindowsApplication1 thru WindowsApplication5999 directories. Anyway, via Rick Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:33 PM by Powertoys | 11 Comments

VB6 MouseWheel Fix via Add-in

Thanks to dredge , today I discovered a solution for THE problem that plagued me since I started programming in VB6... The VB6 MouseWheel Fix!!! Now when I have to maintain my old VB6 projects I feel much more confortable... :-) UPDATE: Many Thanks to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:58 PM by Powertoys | 11 Comments

NTime - Performance unit testing tool

Adam Slosarski presents NTime -a perfomance testing tool - on code project. [Via Weblogs @ ASP.NET ] From the Code Project page: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/NTime.asp This article presents a unique tool to run repeatable performance tests in actually Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:44 PM by Powertoys | 2 Comments

ClrUnit: Unit Testing Framework with VS Integration inspired by JUnit

From John Lewicki comes a new Unit Testing framework for VS integrated as a VSIP package. In his words: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=b85944cd-fd7b-4b8b-86d1-9fc0c710cd0f Load your unit tests automatically after every Read More...
Posted Monday, May 17, 2004 4:29 PM by Powertoys | 5 Comments

Accessibility Macros for Visual Studio .NET 2003

As I demo'ed at CSUN , here are the Accessibility Macros for Visual Studio .NET 2003 . These macros allow users to tweak the Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE by easily increasing and decreasing font size, toggling colors in the editor to pure black on white Read More...
Posted Friday, May 14, 2004 6:25 PM by Powertoys | 5 Comments

Introducing MsaaVerify - an Accessibility testing tool

Have you ever used AccExplorer or Inspect and wondered whether the information presented was correct? Have you ever wanted to know which controls really need Names, Keyboard Shortcuts, Descriptions, and so forth ? It's time to MsaaVerify! MsaaVerify will Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:04 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

ASP.Net Version Switcher

Via Rob I found the ASP.Net Version switcher. Rob claims to use it at least once a day. - Josh From the Official Site: http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/ASPNETVersionSwitcher.aspx The ASP.NET Version Switcher is a little utility that can be used to quickly Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 09, 2004 12:43 AM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Pinvoke.Net Add-in Link Update

If you have the post about the Pinvoke.Net Add-in for VS in your RSS reader cache you should note that the link has changed. It should be more permanent this time. I've updated the post to have the new link and it's also here: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=75122f62-5459-4364-b9ba-7b5e6a4754fe Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:07 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments
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Get Pinvoke.Net Native Method Signatures directly into Visual Studio

I know I suggest that everything is cool, but this is really cool IMO! Via Kevin I found this add-in that lets you search for and insert pinvoke signatures right into your code from the Pinvoke.Net web site. You can also add content to the site right Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:22 PM by Powertoys | 5 Comments

"Close All But This" and more Whidbey commands now in VS 2003!!!

This is pretty cool. Gaston couldn't wait for Whidbey so he coded up some of our little IDE enhancements as a package for VS 2003 users. Jason , the IDE PM who drove the Whidbey improvements, was impressed when I showed him. :-) From the Site: http://weblogs.asp.net/gmilano/archive/2004/05/05/126491.aspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:03 PM by Powertoys | 4 Comments

Add Code Wizard

Craig made a post over at his blog, giving the location of a new toy called “Add Code Wizard”. Here is a description of the sample: http://blogs.msdn.com/craigskibo/archive/2004/04/26/120773.aspx “Visual Studio allows you to create wizards Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:19 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Class Browsing for .NET components with Reflector = High Praise

This one has been getting a lot of praise lately... The official site says : “Reflector is a class browser for .NET components. It supports assembly and namespace views, type and member search, C# XML documentation viewer, call and callee graphs, Read More...
Posted Monday, May 03, 2004 11:40 PM by Powertoys | 6 Comments
 
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