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Free Wizard to Create C# Typed Collections in VS 2003

Via the mailbag… We used something similar to this tool when making our automation libraries for Whidbey. It comes in handy when you work with lots of collections. Page: http://www.geekproject.com/tools.aspx#9 Description This is a wizard for C# Read More...
Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 12:25 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

C# Programmable Calculator

This one comes from Eric through the mailbag: http://www.personalmicrocosms.com/html/cspcalc.html " If you like Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculators and you like to program in C#, use C# Programmable Calculator to create custom functions using your Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:05 AM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

WSCF 0.4 "Web services Contract-First, for real"

We featured the WsContractFirst Add-In in an earlier post , but Christian let me know they have a much improved release of WSCF now. Check out the walkthrough for complete details . New Features in v0.4 (compared to v0.3): WSDL creation wizard Abstracts Read More...
Posted Monday, December 27, 2004 4:08 PM by Powertoys | 2 Comments

MZ-Tools 4.0 the "all-in-one" add-in for VS .Net 2002 and 2003

Via The Daily Grind " MZ-Tools 4.0 for Visual Studio .NET - I used MZ-Tools for VB6; it's a great set of add-ins. I hadn't realized that there was a version for VB .NET with such features as fast control name editing, some refactoring, private clipboards, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:32 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

VBCommenter for XML Comment Generation in VS .Net 2003

A personal entry for me. Today I reached the end of my intended roadmap and released version 1.2 of the VBCommenter addin . The VBCommenter is an addin for VS 2003 that gives you the ability to automatically generate XML comment headers in the VB .NET Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:44 PM by Powertoys | 5 Comments

Add-in Express: Make Office Add-in Development Easier

This looks pretty cool - Josh Web Site: http://www.add-in-express.com Quick Description: " Add-in Express is completely based on the rapid application development paradigm, installs several .NET or VCL components, and adds to IDE several wizards. The Read More...
Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 5:02 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Make Code Comments Pretty with CommentReflower

Ian wrote a cool VS 2003 plugin that makes comments in code more readable. From the Site: "Comment Reflower is a Visual Studio .NET 2003 Plugin to reflow the text in comments in source files to have even word wrapping. It does more than simply just wrapping Read More...
Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 1:31 PM by Powertoys | 6 Comments

VB.NET Class Builder Utility 1.0

Sure... I think the Whidbey Class Designer rocks. But you don't have Whidbey today, so you might be interested in a class building utility like this one from Mod2Software . Check it out here: http://www.mod2software.com/ProductPages/cbu.htm "This program Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:58 PM by Powertoys | 7 Comments

WsContractFirst Add-In for improved “Contract First” Web services development

Christian, an RD from thinktecture sent us mail about thier WSContractFirst Add-In . From the Add-In Description : http://www.thinktecture.com/resources/software/wscontractfirst/default.html "Maybe some of you know that I am a big believer in contract-based Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:51 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

Visual Assist X from Whole Tomato Software

People send me mail that asks "What about Visual Assist X?". This blog gets comments like "Tool X is nothing compared to the Whole Tomato stuff". In chats I've seen "Why don't you guys just buy the Whole Tomato stuff and ship it in the box?". I'll admit, Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:26 PM by Powertoys | 6 Comments

Code Template Autocompletion for VS 2002 and VS 2003

When it rains it pours. I found this in my inbox this morning and it looks pretty cool. Here is the description from Alvaros AutoCode v2.0 is an Add-In for Visual Studio .net that enables AutoComplete for any language in Visual Studio .net. Generated Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:02 PM by Powertoys | 5 Comments

devAdvantage for C# code analysis and automated code reviews

Another one from the mailbag via Dan! devAdvantage beta 2.0 is now available for free download and use. devAdvantage performs C# code analysis to automate code reviews. Unlike other code analyzers devAdvantage allows you to quickly correct any coding Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 1:00 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Reflector Graph v1.2 Add-In released

After I posted about Reflector a user asked "What does this do that the built in object browser doesn't?” Here is another good example. Josh [Via Peli's Blog ] New features: Unit Test Generation Add-in , Type Graph Add-in , Warning: This release Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 12, 2004 2:55 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

devMetrics 1.0: Free C# Software Metrics

From Dan at anticipatingminds.... Anticipating Minds has a new Visual Studio .NET Add-in: devMetrics is a C# code analysis tool that gathers software metrics so that developers, leads and software managers can quickly identify potentially problematic Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 05, 2004 1:41 AM by Powertoys | 13 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
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