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These all look pretty cool and I really like what Gaston did earlier for the VS 2003 file tab commands . Enjoy - Josh In the context menu of the project we have: Collapse all projects Open Project Folder Visual Command Prompt Here In the context menu Read More...

I should have covered this a long time ago, but I was reminded today by Brian that we offer a free VSIP partner product DVD . I can't tell from the site which ones are the full versions and which ones are only demos, but it doesn't cost much to find out. Read More...

Gaston Milano posted a VSIP based Xaml viewer for Whidbey . "Features: Right click in xaml files to call to the viewer. Switch from viewer to associated file Show errors in output window and task list, so you can go to the line with double click. Call Read More...

From John Lewicki comes a new Unit Testing framework for VS integrated as a VSIP package. In his words: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=b85944cd-fd7b-4b8b-86d1-9fc0c710cd0f Load your unit tests automatically after every Read More...

This is pretty cool. Gaston couldn't wait for Whidbey so he coded up some of our little IDE enhancements as a package for VS 2003 users. Jason , the IDE PM who drove the Whidbey improvements, was impressed when I showed him. :-) From the Site: http://weblogs.asp.net/gmilano/archive/2004/05/05/126491.aspx Read More...

Via Robert I discovered the Help Integration Wizard. From Roberts Post: A team at Microsoft had FINALLY made it dirt-simple to create an integrated VS.NET help collection, without making it ridiculously convoluted, aka the VSHIK. They laughed and assured Read More...

Check out this Resource Editor made with the VSIPExtras by Gaston . Features listed from the site include: Integrated on Visual Studio .NET 2003 Edit .resx and .resources files Explore resources in .dll and .exe files, then for example, you can open and Read More...