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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

If you use Regular Expressions, you need to check out this Regex Builder tool

One of my coworkers in Visual Studio has created this really cool tool for creating and testing Regular Expressions. I’ve just recently started using .NET Regular Expressions in my Editor testing, so take my word for it that this tool greatly helps with Read More...
Posted Friday, April 15, 2005 3:29 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

Go Back Visual Studio Add-in

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GoBackAddin.asp [Via .Avery Blog ] The Go Back Add-in provides a Navigate Backward functionality that is different than the normal Navigate Backward functionality. (Which does some neat things like close a file if Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:20 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

VBCommenter 1.2.5 FINAL Released for Adding XML Comments to VB.Net

I continue to be impressed by the people from the community that step up and make serious improvements to the VBCommenter tool. The new release , from Doug, is very impressive . Here are just some of the improvements he highlighted on his blog. Major Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 6:08 PM by Powertoys | 2 Comments

Read Blogs Without Leaving Visual Studio

Jon, the creator of SharpTools , sent me mail to let me know about his latest creation... a plugin that lets you read blogs indide the Visual Studio IDE. I've gave it a shot and I have to say that it looks pretty cool. From the site . This open source Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:35 PM by Powertoys | 7 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

XML Visualizer for Visual Studio .NET 2003

Michael Bouck sent me mail about a cool "holiday project" add-in he was working on to create a visualizer for XML that you can use in VS2003. It is worth checking out and leaving some feedback for him on the workspace. Home Page: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/xmlviz Read More...
Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 12:53 PM by Powertoys | 6 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

Zanebug: Unit Testing With Cool Perf Analysis

Via Adapdev.com: Zanebug is an advanced unit testing application for .NET. It supports existing NUnit tests, performance metrics, multiple test iterations, in-depth error information, pass / fail stats, perfmon integration, result graphing, etc. Web Site: Read More...
Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 4:33 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

VS Addin for Managing Version Information

Via Matt Hawley : "I was reading this weeks Code Project newsletter, when I came across an updated article named Versioning Controlled Build . The description so eloquently puts it: "A Visual Studio add-in that automates AssemblyVersion control." One Read More...
Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 1:59 PM by Powertoys | 1 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

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

CopySourceAsHTML: Get Code into HTML without Word from the Editor

Earlier this month I let you know about a macro that converts code to HTML for use on web pages or blog posts. Since then Colin sent me a link to his "Wordless" tool for accomplishing the same thing . The users reviews for Colin's tool are pretty positive. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:37 PM by Powertoys | 6 Comments

Simple Macro for Formatting Code to HTML from within VS 2003

Via .Avery : " Code -> HTML in VS.NET - Cory comes up with a cool macro to send your code to word then back to your clipboard. Quick HTML formatting for your code." It's been a while since we've posted an interesting Macro to the Powertoys blog. This Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:43 PM by Powertoys | 6 Comments

Write and Execute C# Files from the Command Line with C# Script Executor

I'll admit... I've never been a scripting junkie. I've only dabbled in perl. Even if it takes me twenty more lines of code I will struggle to put out a C# version of what I'm after. If you are like me, then this tool will probably sound good to you. From Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 2:19 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments
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