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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

Consolas - a New Font for the Visual Studio 2005 Editor

Consolas, a cleartype font designed specifically for to make code more readable is now available for download for users of Visual Studio 2005 from the Microsoft Download Center . Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:16 AM by saraford | 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

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

If I had to rename this blog, what would you call it?

Hi all, I’m Sara Ford , a Program Manager on the Developer Solutions team. I’m going to be helping Josh with this Power Toys blog. On my personal blog, I asked the question What sort of tools would you expect to see under “Power Toys for Visual Studio” Read More...
Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 2:25 PM by saraford | 4 Comments
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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

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

CoolCommands Refference Manager for Visual Studio 2005 RTM

I ported CoolCommands to visual studio RTM CoolCommands includes: - Reference Manager - Collapse All Project, Command Prompt Here, Open Project Folder, Demo Font and Wheel Font Zooming The Navigation Window power tool it is not included probably in the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:20 PM by Powertoys | 1 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

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
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