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Cool New Whidbey File Commands

Powertoys — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:35:00 GMT

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 of the text views we have:

Demo Font

Additionally to the old commands I implemented 2 new commands:

Copy File

Sometimes I need to copy the working file to some place in the net because somebody wants to take a look of it.

Is like a "save as" but you continue working with the same file.

Send by Mail

Select some text in a document right click and choose send by mail. I found this useful a lot of times. Hope this help somebody else.

CoolCommands.msi

Requirements: Whidbey beta 1

Free Visual Studio Partner Product DVD

Powertoys — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:50:00 GMT

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.

More Details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/partnerdvd/

What's Included....

Visual Studio Partner	Product Name
/n software	IP*Works! V6 .NET Edition
Actional Corporation	SOAPstation
ActiveState	Visual Perl Visual Python Visual XSLT
AlachiSoft	TierDeveloper
AmberPoint, Inc.	AmberPoint Express
AppForge, Inc.	AppForge Crossfire
ARTech	DeKlarit 3.0
ASNA	ASNA Visual RPG for Visual Studio .NET
Atalasoft, Inc.	Atalasoft DotImage Professional Suite
Automated QA	AQtime TestComplete
Borland	CaliberRM Janeva OptimizeIt StarTeam Together
ComponentArt	Web.UI for ASP.NET
ComponentOne	ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2004 v2
Compuware Corporation	DevPartner Studio Professional Edition
Dart Communications	PowerTCP FTP for .NET PowerTCP Mail for .NET PowerWEB TextBox for ASP.NET
Data Dynamics, Ltd.	ActiveReports for .NET SharpUI for .NET
Developer Express Inc	Windows Forms Component Suite CodeRush for .NET eXpress Persistent Objects
Dot Net Builders	Constructor() for Visual Studio .NET
Dundas Software	Dundas Chart - ASP.NET Enterprise Edition
Eiffel Software	Eiffel ENViSioN!
Enterprise Blocks	Enterprise Blocks 1.1
F5 Networks	iControl API/SDK for .NET
FarPoint Technologies, Inc.	FarPoint's Spread for .NET
Gigasoft, Inc.	ProEssentials v5
Hewlett-Packard	HP Openview Adaptive Management Integration Toolkit Developer Edition for Visual Studio .NET 2003
ILOG	ILOG Gantt for .NET
Infragistics	NetAdvantage 2004
InstallShield Software	InstallShield X
Kinitos	Smart Client Management Platform - Developer Edition
LEAD Technologies	LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro for .NET LEADTOOLS Document Imaging
LogicLibrary	Logidex 3.0.1 for .NET
Madinina Software Inc.	CodeObject
Micro Focus	Net Express with .NET University Edition
Monash/Guardsoft	VSGuard
National Instruments	Measurement Studio 7.0 for Visual Studio .NET 2003
Northwoods Software Corporation	GoDiagram Win 2.2 GoDiagram Web 2.2
PreEmptive Solutions	Dotfuscator
Proposion	Proposion N2N
Sanctum, Inc.	AppScan Developer Edition 1.7
Sax.net	Sax.net Communications Community Edition
Serena Software	Serena Dimensions for .NET
Software FX	Chart FX for .NET
SoftWIRE Technology, Inc.	SoftWIRE
Telerik	r.a.d.editor r.a.d.designer r.a.d.menu r.a.d.panelbar r.a.d.rotator r.a.d.spell r.a.d.treeview r.a.d.chart
Velocitis	Flywheel Professional 7.2
Xamlon, Inc.	Xamlon

Xaml Viewer for Whidbey

Powertoys — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:36:00 GMT

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 the viewer directly from View\Other Windows\Xaml Viewer
Text to Xaml, sometimes I need to transform just a text fragment, so you can paste the text in the text view and refresh the viewer in order to see the result. "

People working on Avalon took notice:

Chris Anderson: "I love it when folks in the community do a better job than us! <G>"
Rob Relyea: "Screen shots look great!"

Enjoy!

Josh

Visual Assist X from Whole Tomato Software

Powertoys — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:26:00 GMT

People send me mail that asks "What about Visual Assist X?". This blog gets comments like "Tool X is nothing compared to the Whole Tomato stuff". In chats I've seen "Why don't you guys just buy the Whole Tomato stuff and ship it in the box?". I'll admit, they do some great work through our extensibility interfaces and giving them props in this blog was long overdue. So, if you haven't already, you should check out the free trial of Visual Assist X from Whole Tomato Software.

Some of this stuff (better code coloring, code templates, etc) you'll see in Whidbey, but there is a bunch of other stuff in there as well that we just aren't doing like the "hovering class browser", spell checking, automatic case correction, etc. Good times! Josh

Regular Expression Language Service

Powertoys — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:51:00 GMT

At TechEd the VS Extensibility team held a “feature cook-off” where the audience was given choices of new features and the team had to code them live in 45 minutes.

One of the features chosen was a VS language service that recognized regular expressions and colored them according to a table.

This project is now available here. (You have to log in to the GotDotNet workspaces area to get access).

A little about the project:

This VS language service is designed to run on Whidbey Beta 1 and you have to have the VSIP SDK for Whidbey Beta 1 in order for it to build. This code relies upon new SDK libraries available only in Whidbey and is completely in managed code. These libraries form a part of the Managed Package Framework and provide base class functionality and virtual methods for customization of the language service behavior.

The hard part of a language service still remains: a parser for your language. This project demonstrates just how simple it is to get started and takes the complexity out of the integration with Visual Studio.

The original code of this project has just a few regular expressions in the table that will match upper case strings and color them green and lowercase letters are colored blue.

Feel free to take the code and play with it. Have fun.

Allen

Annotation Package

Powertoys — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:34:00 GMT

Do you want to be a part of this cool VSIP package that allows you to annotate your source code and share your comments with other team members? If so Dr Extensibility (Dr eX) has a great project for you and him to build. Visit here for more information. If you have any stumper question on Visual Studio Extensibility or have any great ideas to use do feel free to drop Doctor a line via his blog.

Spices.VSIP.Net development build obfuscation verification debug deploy

Powertoys — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:06:00 GMT

Spices.VSIP.Net delivers full features set of Spices.Net into Visual Studio, now you can expand you development - analyze, build, obfuscate, debug, verify and deploy your apps with Spices.Net.

Check it out here:
http://www.9rays.net/cgi-bin/components.cgi?act=2&cid=86

ClrUnit: Unit Testing Framework with VS Integration inspired by JUnit

Powertoys — Mon, 17 May 2004 23:29:00 GMT

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 build
Double click navigation to source files for test fixtures and test cases (for languages that support the VS CodeModel).
Run or debug your test within a single instance of Visual Studio.
Double-click navigation to source files from errors and test failures.
Define groups for your tests, to enable flexible test configurations
Test fixtures and test cases can be declared to require their own application domain, with their own configuration file.

This is the first beta release. Bug fixes and improved documentation will follow.

I'll remind users that if you have problems with this (or any of the tools we list here) you should file bugs against the workspace or tool owner so you can be sure they see your feedback. This is really only a listing. :-)

- Josh

"Close All But This" and more Whidbey commands now in VS 2003!!!

Powertoys — Thu, 06 May 2004 02:03:00 GMT

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

Close All but this ( Close all document windows but this)

Copy Full Path ( Copy the full path of the active document to the clipboard )

Show File In Explorer ( Show File in Explorer :)

Enjoy - Josh

Creating a Help Collection Using the Help Integration Wizard Beta

Powertoys — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:11:00 GMT

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 me that the tool would be online soon. Well, two weeks later, here it is. If you do any Help work at all, this tool is a must.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/integration_wizard.asp

Enjoy! Josh

IL Language Service for VS

Powertoys — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:33:00 GMT

This package provides syntax highlighting for IL files in the Visual Studio .NET text editor. Its source is also a very simple example of a language service that uses the VSIP Babel library. Note that it doesn't have Intellisense support right now, so it's just basic colorization...

GDN Workspace:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=9ba289d8-dd2d-4faa-a3b6-364dd7122ebe

- LarsBerg

Resource Editor for VS.NET 2003 made with VSIP Extras!

Powertoys — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:41:00 GMT

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 see the icons and bitmaps of any assembly. When a DLL or EXE file is opened, the editor automatically appends the .resx extension to the file.
Edit of bitmaps and icons using the default editors in VS.NET. (The default bitmap editor doesn't support more than 256 colors so that in these cases MS Paint is opened in order to edit the bitmap)
Additionally, edit imagelists, strings, etc.
You can add and delete bitmaps, icons and strings. (Bitmaps files are not locked in the file system after an add operation, try another resource editor and see if they have this feature :))
Separate tabs for images, icons, strings.

Cool stuff! - Josh