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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

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

ColorPicker .Net: When a product does what the name suggests

I recently spent a good deal of time redesigning the look of my blog . At the time when I was trying to pick colors I was either randomly setting the HEX for RGB and refreshing the page or opening up mspaint only to use the color picker. Of course this Read More...
Posted Friday, January 21, 2005 1:02 PM by Powertoys | 5 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

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

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

Creating a Help Collection Using the Help Integration Wizard Beta

Via Robert I discovered the Help Integration Wizard. From Roberts Post: A team at Microsoft had FINALLY made it dirt-simple to create an integrated VS.NET help collection, without making it ridiculously convoluted, aka the VSHIK. They laughed and assured Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:11 AM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

AssemblyToVisio - Visio 2003 UML diagram generator

Sent to me ( Josh ) from one of our Microsoft consultants.... http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=375f1eea-c60c-4cbe-ac12-1335899c6566 AssemblyToVisio - Visio 2003 UML diagram generator This tool fulfills the need that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:22 AM by Powertoys | 18 Comments

Create C# Code Snippets with Snippy

Gus wrote a tool that works with Visual Studio 2005 to create code snippets (aka code expansions). He calls it Snippy . Now I have this image of a smug paper clip offering me some code as I walk by. Josh Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:42 PM by Powertoys | 2 Comments
 
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