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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 IDE. As it was quite painful trying to get something into the IDE, i decided to make PocketProd - which is really a way of quickly adding functionality to any part of VS.NET. The aim of the tool is to make it easy to add supporting tools to the IDE – the tools that are added during installation such as the Security or XML tools are really just simple examples.

http://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProd/ASPX/Home.aspx?documentID=531D8580-B26E-4AAD-9046-A44BD6F31D3B

So, from within PocketProd you can add your own functionality to context menus, toolbars etc. You can see this in four examples where:

• Right click on a code window to add comments to classes, methods etc
  • http://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProdTools/ASPX/CodeDocs.aspx?documentID=53CC98FA-9B95-4D8D-BB8A-AAAA8A704730
• Highlight text in a code window, right click and get a search engine to search for the selected text
  • http://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProd/ASPX/UrlSearch.aspx?documentID=80E6527D-404D-4F48-81D3-57D530E4A2AB
• Right click on a project or solution to run FxCop
  • http://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProdTools/ASPX/FxCop.aspx?documentID=7FE55F5D-713F-44A7-8A28-9BF749FA9E00
• Right click on a project or solution to run NDoc
  • http://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProdTools/ASPX/NDoc.aspx?documentID=CCA4BEC4-91DC-4BC1-B723-83B9CAEE90D9
  • Of course it is possible to add any tool, not just FxCop and NDoc!
• There is a URL that takes you to descriptions of what PocketProd is and examples of how to customize the tool
  • http://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProd/ASPX/Home.aspx?documentID=531D8580-B26E-4AAD-9046-A44BD6F31D3B
• and there is a link to some of the tools that are added during installation
  • http://www.pocketnerd.net/PocketProdTools/ASPX/Home.aspx?documentID=A146267C-A69C-444D-B706-356BEF04B283