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WDriven - Use Word Templates to Integrate with TFS Server

WDriven is a Microsoft WORD document template integrated with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. It enables you to communicate and collaborate on Visual Studio 2005 Team System projects from within Microsoft Word. Through VSTS Smart Tags, you can add/edit/track Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:40 PM by Powertoys | 4 Comments

PureText 2.0 to cut out pasting to notepad

I downloaded this time-saving utility after reading about it in Duncan Mackenzie's blog (Removing Word's Formatting from text before pasting into .Text or other apps...). I put applications on a two-week probation period before choosing to keep them or Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:58 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

HelpStudio Lite to Author Help Content in VS 2005

From the MSDN Forums... The VS 2005 SDK contains a new tool for authoring Help and integrating it with VS 2005. The tool is called HelpStudio Lite. It is lightweight version of the full HelpStudio product, developed by Innovasys . HelpStudio Lite is recommended Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 7:59 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

FlashControl to add Flash in Asp.Net 2.0

From the mailbag... FlashControl is a simple way to include Flash movies in your ASP.NET 2.0 projects ! This free server control can be added in Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox so you can just drag and drop it in your aspx pages. FlashControl manage all Flash Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 6:59 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

Treemap Visual View of Hard Drive Contents

Not exactly developer related, but I was having a lot of fun just seeing what's taking up so much of the space on my laptop this Holiday season. This tool is great for doing just that and a little bit of early spring cleaning. http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview Read More...
Posted Friday, December 30, 2005 3:41 PM by Powertoys | 15 Comments

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

RE: Paint.NET, the open source MS Paint killer

Not exactly developer related, but this is the best free lightweight imaging tool I've found. I've been using it for the last year, but this post on download squad reminded me that I should post it here. Josh [Via Download Squad ] Okay, it doesn't take Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:14 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

Right Click -> New Microsoft Visual Studio Solution

Via Robin Curry File this one under “Why didn’t I think of that?!” Peter Provost created a ShellNew extension for Visual Studio Solutions to allow you to right click and add a new solution to any folder without the heavy-handed way Visual Studio does Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 05, 2005 1:43 AM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

Snippy - Edit and Create VS 2005 Code Snippets

Via VS Editor Team: We have released a new powertoy Snippy . It is a Code Snippet editor that will allow you to create new code snippets or modify existing ones. Please let us know if you have any problems installing or using it. There are two versions Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:51 PM by Powertoys | 3 Comments

Windows Clippings 1.0 for Cleaner Screen Grabs

Kenny Ker recently posted a tool that generates window screen grabs with JUST the window and none of the background for the window . Getting ‘clean’ images of these windows can be hard if the background does not match whatever color you will be rendering Read More...
Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 2:24 PM by Powertoys | 1 Comments

VS 2005 Wish - Use MSBuild for VC++ Projects without VCBuild???

This blog has been pretty quite of late and I would attribute that to many tool vendors ramping up plans around the upcoming release of VS 2005. We at Microsoft are no exception. In the last few days I've heard of numerous "aftermarket solutions"/powertoys Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:30 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments

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

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

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

Merge Multiple .NET Assemblies into One with ILMerge

Someone from MSR forwarded me the link to ILMerge. It lets you combine multiple assemblies into one without opening up the source code. Enjoy - josh From the ILMerge Site ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single Read More...
Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 12:50 PM by Powertoys | 0 Comments
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