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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

An article on creating msn8 plugins

Shows you how to create a tool window add-in with Visual Studio 2005

This month the CLR team introduces the new System.AddIn namespace in the Base Class Library, which will be available in the next release of Visual Studio.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System is more powerful than ever, allowing you to create add-ins for Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and InfoPath.

SlickEdit has released SlickEditВ® Gadgets, a collection of free utilities for the MicrosoftВ® Visual StudioВ® 2005 development environment. SlickEdit Gadgets is an assortment of useful utilities to help programmers monitor, explore, and inspect the contents of their code. SlickEdit Gadgets include: * Editor Gadgets: Four utilities that add visual pizzazz to your editor, such as background images and wallpaper. * Command Spy: Monitors command execution and allows you to see exactly what commands you've run, how many times you've run them and what key bindings are used to invoke those commands. * File Explorer: Provides an easy way to open solutions, projects, or single files in Visual Studio. * Data Object Analyzer: Inspects the contents of any clipboard operation, or drag-and-drop operation, from any other application. * SLOC Report: Provides a graphical report of the total lines of code in a file, project, or solution.

A convenient tool for quick solution back-ups.