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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

Filed under: VS 2003, VS 2005, From MS Team Member

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

Filed under: VS 2002, VS 2003, VS 2005, Collaboration Tools, _Productivity Tools (Non-VS), Freeware/Donationware, From MS Team Member

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

Filed under: VS 2002, VS 2003, VS 2005, _Productivity Tools (Non-VS), Freeware/Donationware, From MS Team Member

Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

By popular request ... Guidelines are visible column indicators for the VS Editor. For more info on how to enable them, check out http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2004/11/15/257953.aspx Note: I've spent lots of cycles testing these on Visual Studio Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 2:25 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2003, VS 2005, From MS Team Member

NUnit & VS Integration Macro (Via Rido)

Rido sent me mail about this macro this morning. "I've written a macro that sets the project configuration options to a NUnit Test project, so you can debug without "Attach to a process". I think you could add it to your Macro list: " Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2004/09/10/NUnitVSMacro.asp Read More...

Posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 3:18 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

Filed under: _Macros for VS, VS 2003, Source Code Provided, From MS Team Member

IAccessible Implementation Sample for a Custom Push Button Published!

Fiona, one of the devs on my team VSCore, has put together a really nice sample on how to implement IAccessible for a Custom Push Button . If you’re using standard Windows controls, you get MSAA implemented for free. However, if you’re using Read More...

Posted Friday, June 18, 2004 7:02 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Filed under: Powertoys News, VS 2003, Source Code Provided, From MS Team Member

VSBlogger

At TechEd 2004 I demoed a RSS Reader Add-in for Visual Studio. I finally packaged up the sources and made them available on GotDotNet under the name VSBlogger. It is not as full-featured as some of the other blog readers out there, but the source is available Read More...

Posted Monday, June 14, 2004 6:22 PM by Powertoys | 4 Comments

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2003, Source Code Provided, From MS Team Member

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

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2003, Code Profiling, Generation, Optimizing, Freeware/Donationware, From MS Team Member

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

Filed under: Powertoys News, _Macros for VS, VS 2003, Collaboration Tools, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware, From MS Team Member

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

Filed under: Powertoys News, Testing Tools, VS 2002, VS 2003, VS 2005, _Productivity Tools (Non-VS), Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware, From MS Team Member

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

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2003, Code Profiling, Generation, Optimizing, Collaboration Tools, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware, From MS Team Member

Add Code Wizard

Craig made a post over at his blog, giving the location of a new toy called “Add Code Wizard”. Here is a description of the sample: http://blogs.msdn.com/craigskibo/archive/2004/04/26/120773.aspx “Visual Studio allows you to create wizards Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:19 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2003, Code Profiling, Generation, Optimizing, Source Code Provided, From MS Team Member

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

Filed under: _VSIP Packages for VS, VS 2003, Source / Document Control, Freeware/Donationware, From MS Team Member