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Ten Essential Tools: Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now

James Avery does it again with his popular list of developer tools. This time he covers the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that you can download for free.

Step-By-Step Guide to Converting Web Projects from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Visual Studio 2005

Avoid pitfalls in the upgrading process with these best practices for converting Web projects to Visual Studio 2005.

Smart Tags: Simplify UI Development with Custom Designer Actions in Visual Studio

Windows Forms 2.0 components expose smart tags by utilizing Designer Actions. By taking advantage of this feature, you can add smart tags to your own custom components to make setting their properties and other actions much easier and developer-friendly.

XML Comments: Document Your Code in No Time At All with Macros in Visual Studio

Starting in Visual Studio 2005, XML documentation support will become available in Visual Basic and C++ as it has been for C#. However, making full use of the many comment tags will take a little extra work In this article, the author shows how Visual Studio macros can be used to automate the creation of XML documentation and creates macros that write large sections of comments with just a keystroke