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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

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

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware

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

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Collaboration Tools, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware

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

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Code Profiling, Generation, Optimizing, Freeware/Donationware

Poor Man's Bracket Matching Macro

David sent me mail about his " Poor Man's Bracket Matching Macro ". (Click link for Macro Code) From his site: "I usually assign it to CTRL + 9 key combination. Now, go to your source and put caret before or after any bracket. Press CTRL + 9. Matching Read More...

Posted Monday, December 06, 2004 5:02 PM by Powertoys | 4 Comments

Filed under: _Macros for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Freeware/Donationware

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

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Code Profiling, Generation, Optimizing, Purchase Required (May have free Demo)

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

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Deployment Tools, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware

Spell Checking your Source Code

I’m going to try something new today… a pseudo review/comparison of two similar add-ins that people recently mailed me. Please let me know if you are interested in this style more in the future or if it was even helpful. I’ll remind readers of this blog Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:18 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware, VS 6.0

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

Filed under: _VSIP Packages for VS, _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Code Profiling, Generation, Optimizing, Purchase Required (May have free Demo), VS 6.0

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

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Code Profiling, Generation, Optimizing, Freeware/Donationware

Toggle Design and Source Windows Macro

This one comes from Austin out of our mailbag. Thanks - Josh I got tired of using the F7, Shift-F7 key shortcuts for toggling the Design and Source code windows. So I wrote this little macro. It works a little differently for ASP.NET files. When toggling Read More...

Posted Friday, July 02, 2004 12:09 AM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

Filed under: _Macros for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware

Send F1 Searches Online to Google with this Macro

Marty wrote a Macro for VS that performs a google search on the current F1 keyword in the IDE. Check it out for yourself here: http://www.little-garins.com/Blogs/marty/archive/2004/06/24/171.aspx This is pretty cool, but what impressed me was the quick Read More...

Posted Saturday, June 26, 2004 11:06 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

Filed under: _Macros for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, VS 2005, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware

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

ASP.Net Version Switcher

Via Rob I found the ASP.Net Version switcher. Rob claims to use it at least once a day. - Josh From the Official Site: http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/ASPNETVersionSwitcher.aspx The ASP.NET Version Switcher is a little utility that can be used to quickly Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 09, 2004 12:43 AM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Filed under: VS 2002, VS 2003, VS 2005, Deployment Tools, Debugging Tools, _Productivity Tools (Non-VS), Freeware/Donationware