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Free Wizard to Create C# Typed Collections in VS 2003

Via the mailbag… We used something similar to this tool when making our automation libraries for Whidbey. It comes in handy when you work with lots of collections. Page: http://www.geekproject.com/tools.aspx#9 Description This is a wizard for C# Read More...
Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 12:25 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

CR_Documentor - Another Code Documentation Utility

Via Paraesthesia Lutz Roeder, a fantastic developer of ultra-helpful tools, took his "Documentor" application - which allowed a developer to preview what XML document comments would look like rendered into end-user documentation - down from his site. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:00 AM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

QuickdocViewer Add-In for XML Comment Viewing

Via the mailbag I discovered a tool that's pretty complimentary to the VBCommenter . The Quickdoc Viewer is an add-in module for the Microsoft Visual Studio.net IDE which offers a simple WYSIWYG XML to HTML previewer for XML based documentation comments. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:44 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

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

CodeXchange Snippet Sharing Community for Visual Studio

I really believe good rich client interfaces to online communities are going to be big. Why should you have to leave Visual Studio to share code with other developers? Why should you have to browse to a web page just to download a code snippet. There Read More...
Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 11:47 AM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Happy Birthday to our Friends @ SharpToolbox

Fabrice has been aggregating all sorts of Developer productivity enhancing tools for just over two years now and I wanted to say thanks for all the hard work and Happy Birthday! Via Fabrice : SharpToolbox is two years old Two years ago, I started collecting Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:36 PM by Powertoys | 4 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

VS Editor Font Zooming like Word

Via http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2005/02/14/372645.aspx "A very big thank you to Henrik Stuart for writing this VS Editor Zoom control and updating it for Whidbey. " "Just like Word’s zoom control, adjusting the value of this control will increase Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:49 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

Automatic Build Dependencies (ABD) add-in for VC project in .Net 2003

Another mailbag entry from Lionel. "I just put together an add-in for visual studio 2003 that sets automatically build dependencies for all VC projects in the current solution. It also has the option to generate Build Dependencies Graphs. " http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/AutoBuildDependencies.as Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:39 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

Codehound - Developer Search Engine with VS Add-In

Via jtobler "Another great source-code finding search engine is Codehound . For DotNetters, Codehound also offers a nifty free code-finding VisualStudio.NET Add-in." Check it out @ http://www.codehound.com/ The addin simply lets you search for the selected Read More...
Posted Friday, February 11, 2005 4:13 PM by Powertoys | 4 Comments

"Hello Computer"; A Visual Studio add-in for Programming by Voice

Not sure how useful this is in practice. I have a hard enough time getting voice recognition to work in normal applications let alone using it to write code in Visual Studio, but who could resist giving this experimental add-in a try. Personally I'd prefer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:45 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

BuildOne to Make Builds More Efficient

Just got mail about this add-in. Looks like a good time saver if you work with large multi-project solutions that reference each other. "While developing a large product with VS .NET, I couldn't help but notice that as the Solution larger and larger, Read More...
Posted Friday, January 14, 2005 12:40 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments
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