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Consolas - a New Font for the Visual Studio 2005 Editor

Consolas, a cleartype font designed specifically for to make code more readable is now available for download for users of Visual Studio 2005 from the Microsoft Download Center . Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:16 AM by saraford | 4 Comments

First set of Power Toys for Visual Studio released by the Developer Solutions team

Check out the Developer Solutions team's blog for the latest information on Power Toys for Visual Studio. MSBee MSBee is an addition to MSBuild that allows you to build managed apps in VS 2005 that target .NET 1.1. Download MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:03 PM by saraford | 0 Comments

HelpStudio Lite to Author Help Content in VS 2005

From the MSDN Forums... The VS 2005 SDK contains a new tool for authoring Help and integrating it with VS 2005. The tool is called HelpStudio Lite. It is lightweight version of the full HelpStudio product, developed by Innovasys . HelpStudio Lite is recommended Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 7:59 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

FlashControl to add Flash in Asp.Net 2.0

From the mailbag... FlashControl is a simple way to include Flash movies in your ASP.NET 2.0 projects ! This free server control can be added in Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox so you can just drag and drop it in your aspx pages. FlashControl manage all Flash Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 6:59 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

PageMethods: Well-defined URLs for your ASP.NET sites and applications

Via Fabrice PageMethods for Visual Studio 2005 has just been released. This version offers the same support as the version for VS 2003, plus some additional features. PageMethods proposes a new code model that enables well-defined URLs and simplifies Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:45 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Snippy - Edit and Create VS 2005 Code Snippets

Via VS Editor Team: We have released a new powertoy Snippy . It is a Code Snippet editor that will allow you to create new code snippets or modify existing ones. Please let us know if you have any problems installing or using it. There are two versions Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:51 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

VS 2005 Wish - Use MSBuild for VC++ Projects without VCBuild???

This blog has been pretty quite of late and I would attribute that to many tool vendors ramping up plans around the upcoming release of VS 2005. We at Microsoft are no exception. In the last few days I've heard of numerous "aftermarket solutions"/powertoys Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:30 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

gotdotnet CodeGallery for ongoing Sample Sharing and Development

Via Korby I am proud to announce the public release of CodeGallery , the newest member of the gotdotnet family. Gotdotnet.com is the community website where professional Windows and .NET developers from around the world can contribute and consume code Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:39 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

VS Content Installer Power Toys

Via Craig The first release of the VS Content Installer Power Toys are now available. You will need a recent build of VS (I tested with the August CTP, but the July version may also work) to use these tools. Remember, they are still a beta build, so not Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 1:25 PM by Powertoys | 2 Comments

VC++ Powertoys from GDN

I don't know how I missed these, but there exists a collection of VC++ powertoys on the GDN site. The full descriptions are found in this document , but I've copied them down here as well. Name - Description Delta - Watch a directory (either local or Read More...
Posted Monday, August 15, 2005 1:19 PM by Powertoys | 7 Comments

DPack 2.2.0 - Global Bookmarks, Improved Code Browsing, Code Stats, etc

Via TECHQUICK My buddy Sergey has released a new update to DPack . Here’s what’s new and changed in this release: Added global bookmarks option to Numbered Bookmarks feature. Global bookmarks work on the whole solution as oppose to individual files, and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:29 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2005 beta cleanup tool

Need to spread the word about this. - josh Wow, did you know that there is a Visual Studio 2005 cleanup tool that is suppossed to help cleanup any types of leftover "stuff" from a previous install of a beta or CTP of Visual Studio 2005? I just ran across Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:49 PM by Powertoys | 2 Comments

VS Editor Font Zooming like Word

Via http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2005/02/14/372645.aspx "A very big thank you to Henrik Stuart for writing this VS Editor Zoom control and updating it for Whidbey. " "Just like Word’s zoom control, adjusting the value of this control will increase Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:49 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

Cool New Whidbey File Commands

These all look pretty cool and I really like what Gaston did earlier for the VS 2003 file tab commands . Enjoy - Josh In the context menu of the project we have: Collapse all projects Open Project Folder Visual Command Prompt Here In the context menu Read More...
Posted Friday, February 04, 2005 4:35 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

Xaml Viewer for Whidbey

Gaston Milano posted a VSIP based Xaml viewer for Whidbey . "Features: Right click in xaml files to call to the viewer. Switch from viewer to associated file Show errors in output window and task list, so you can go to the line with double click. Call Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:36 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments
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