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Using Visual Studio.net to develop Add-in to enforce company's standard modification history

This add-in adds the ability to open Windows Explorer at specified locations and to execute the application in 'Windows Explorer mode'.

Long time ago, I wondered how Microsoft Access put an Edit control on the context menu! Then I got another idea ... why don't we use any control(s) on the context menu? This will make the user interface easier to use, learn and increase productivity. The good news here is that, you can make it the same way you design a user control or a form using the Visual Studio designer..

SnipPit is a Visual Studio 2008 Add-In (and a desktop application is included too) that allows for storing, retrieving, and searching for code snippets. It allows for keywords, code/language types, multiple users, public and private snippets. It also provides a right-click menu within VS and comes with a desktop program for use in applicationss other than VS.

This is a simple List<T> and Dictionary<T,T> debugger visualizer for Visual Studio.NET 2005 and 2008. The only requirement for it to work in that the classes inside the lists or dictionaries should be marked as [Serializable].

Visual Studio Debugger Visualizers are a great addition to the developers debugging toolbox. Their purpose is to provide a custom view of data during a debugging session. This article will cover developing a simple string visualizer that allows the string to be replaced during the visualizer session. Additionally, necessary steps to debug your visualizer will be covered.

Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Lutz Roeder's Reflector. Reflexil is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports "on-the-fly" C#/VB.NET code injection.

Visual Studio provides one of the most powerful IDE's on the market. One under-exploited aspect of this IDE is the extensibility model. Programming IDE's are not static development tools. Development techniques, tools, and concepts change. Extensibility has been built into Visual Studio from its early inceptions. The great thing about Microsoft's foresight is that you can augment functionality of Visual Studio yourself. This article will demonstrate how to extend the Visual Studio IDE using Visual Studio, the .NET Framework, and the Visual Studio Add-In and automation models..

Code Review Add-In helps the process of reviewing code and publishing the results as work items to the Team System Server for review by team members

Full control over addins loaded into VS2002-2005 - for power users or addin developers