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WDriven is a Microsoft WORD document template integrated with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. It...
Date: 08/15/2006
Consolas, a cleartype font designed specifically for to make code more readable is now available for...
Date: 05/09/2006
I downloaded this time-saving utility after reading about it in Duncan Mackenzie's blog (Removing...
Date: 03/30/2006
Via the mailbag… We used something similar to this tool when making our automation libraries...
Date: 03/20/2006
Hi all, I’m Sara Ford, a Program Manager on the Developer Solutions team. I’m going to be helping...
Date: 03/10/2006
Check out the Developer Solutions team's blog for the latest information on Power Toys for Visual...
Date: 03/08/2006
From the MSDN Forums... The VS 2005 SDK contains a new tool for authoring Help and integrating it...
Date: 01/20/2006
From the mailbag... FlashControl is a simple way to include Flash movies in your ASP.NET 2.0...
Date: 01/13/2006
Not exactly developer related, but I was having a lot of fun just seeing what's taking up so much of...
Date: 12/30/2005
Via Fabrice PageMethods for Visual Studio 2005 has just been released. This version offers the same...
Date: 12/07/2005
I ported CoolCommands to visual studio RTM CoolCommands includes: - Reference Manager - Collapse All...
Date: 11/29/2005
Not exactly developer related, but this is the best free lightweight imaging tool I've found. I've...
Date: 11/29/2005
Via Robin Curry File this one under “Why didn’t I think of that?!” Peter Provost created a ShellNew...
Date: 11/05/2005
Via Paraesthesia Lutz Roeder, a fantastic developer of ultra-helpful tools, took his "Documentor"...
Date: 11/03/2005
Via the mailbag I discovered a tool that's pretty complimentary to the VBCommenter. The Quickdoc...
Date: 10/25/2005
Via VS Editor Team: We have released a new powertoy Snippy. It is a Code Snippet editor that will...
Date: 10/04/2005
Kenny Ker recently posted a tool that generates window screen grabs with JUST the window and none of...
Date: 10/03/2005
This blog has been pretty quite of late and I would attribute that to many tool vendors ramping up...
Date: 09/28/2005
Via Korby I am proud to announce the public release of CodeGallery, the newest member of the...
Date: 08/31/2005
Via Craig The first release of the VS Content Installer Power Toys are now available. You will need...
Date: 08/18/2005
I don't know how I missed these, but there exists a collection of VC++ powertoys on the GDN site....
Date: 08/15/2005
Via TECHQUICK My buddy Sergey has released a new update to DPack. Here’s what’s new and changed in...
Date: 07/19/2005
Someone from MSR forwarded me the link to ILMerge. It lets you combine multiple assemblies into one...
Date: 05/16/2005
From the Powertoys mailbag. This is a cool IE add-on that adds some helpfull information to IE when...
Date: 05/16/2005
This is pretty cool. Add your own customized snippets to the VS. 2005 snippet Library. I'm just...
Date: 05/05/2005
Need to spread the word about this. - josh Wow, did you know that there is a Visual Studio 2005...
Date: 05/05/2005
I really believe good rich client interfaces to online communities are going to be big. Why should...
Date: 04/25/2005
One of my coworkers in Visual Studio has created this really cool tool for creating and testing...
Date: 04/15/2005
Via James Well, it is finally ready to go. VisualStudioHacks.com is the companion site for Visual...
Date: 04/07/2005
Fabrice has been aggregating all sorts of Developer productivity enhancing tools for just over two...
Date: 03/29/2005
https://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GoBackAddin.asp [Via .Avery Blog] The Go Back Add-in provides a...
Date: 03/23/2005
I continue to be impressed by the people from the community that step up and make serious...
Date: 03/19/2005
Jon, the creator of SharpTools, sent me mail to let me know about his latest creation... a plugin...
Date: 03/19/2005
Via https://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2005/02/14/372645.aspx "A very big thank you to Henrik...
Date: 02/22/2005
Another mailbag entry from Lionel. "I just put together an add-in for visual studio 2003 that sets...
Date: 02/22/2005
Via jtobler "Another great source-code finding search engine is Codehound. For DotNetters, Codehound...
Date: 02/11/2005
These all look pretty cool and I really like what Gaston did earlier for the VS 2003 file tab...
Date: 02/04/2005
So I've been trying out MaxiVista for a few weeks now and have some impressions that you may or may...
Date: 01/24/2005
Not sure how useful this is in practice. I have a hard enough time getting voice recognition to work...
Date: 01/19/2005
This one comes from Eric through the mailbag: https://www.personalmicrocosms.com/html/cspcalc.html...
Date: 01/19/2005
Just got mail about this add-in. Looks like a good time saver if you work with large multi-project...
Date: 01/14/2005
Michael Bouck sent me mail about a cool "holiday project" add-in he was working on to create a...
Date: 01/10/2005
We featured the WsContractFirst Add-In in an earlier post, but Christian let me know they have a...
Date: 12/27/2004
I should have covered this a long time ago, but I was reminded today by Brian that we offer a free...
Date: 12/16/2004
David sent me mail about his "Poor Man's Bracket Matching Macro". (Click link for Macro Code) From...
Date: 12/06/2004
Nauman sent me mail about his latest VS Addin that can be used to share code snippets across your...
Date: 12/06/2004
Via The Daily Grind "MZ-Tools 4.0 for Visual Studio .NET - I used MZ-Tools for VB6; it's a great set...
Date: 12/01/2004
Dan, from Anticipating Minds, let me know that they have recently released version 2.0 of the tool...
Date: 11/24/2004
I guess I never listed the Sysinternals tools here because I sort of assumed that even if you have...
Date: 11/24/2004