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

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.

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.

SlickEdit has released SlickEdit® Gadgets, a collection of free utilities for the Microsoft® Visual Studio® 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.

A Visual Studio add-in that automates the AssemblyVersion control.

Link source code comments to your bug tracker, MSDN, development WIKI and more

Walks you through building a generic custom action to manipulate and XCopy the .addin file along with your add-in assembly that will work for most add-in deployment scenarios.

This article shows you how to start writing SharpDevelop AddIns by porting Jon Rista's VS AddIn to SharpDevelop