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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

PageMethods: Well-defined URLs for your ASP.NET sites and applications

Via Fabrice PageMethods for Visual Studio 2005 has just been released. This version offers the same support as the version for VS 2003, plus some additional features. PageMethods proposes a new code model that enables well-defined URLs and simplifies Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:45 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

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

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

DPack 2.2.0 - Global Bookmarks, Improved Code Browsing, Code Stats, etc

Via TECHQUICK My buddy Sergey has released a new update to DPack . Here’s what’s new and changed in this release: Added global bookmarks option to Numbered Bookmarks feature. Global bookmarks work on the whole solution as oppose to individual files, and Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:29 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2003, VS 2005

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

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

Class Browsing for .NET components with Reflector = High Praise

This one has been getting a lot of praise lately... The official site says : “Reflector is a class browser for .NET components. It supports assembly and namespace views, type and member search, C# XML documentation viewer, call and callee graphs, Read More...

Posted Monday, May 03, 2004 11:40 PM by Powertoys | 6 Comments

Filed under: _Add-Ins for VS, VS 2002, VS 2003, VS 2005, Code Profiling, Generation, Optimizing, Source Code Provided, Freeware/Donationware

Add #Region Macro

Another macro from Devhawk allows you to quickly add your own regions to code. From his site: http://www.devhawk.net/art_addregion.aspx In order to make it easier to create regions in my code, I wrote this macro. It asks the developer for a region name, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:39 AM by Powertoys | 6 Comments