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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..

An update to a stand-alone tool for editing Visual Studio's MRU list.

Visual Studio tools for office 2008 provides variety of workflow templates. Ofcourse, these workflow templates are based on Windows Workflow foundation (WF) . Continuing the efforts of integrating the other technologies usage and making the Visual Studio as a single UI IDE for developing various components of different technology, Microsoft have came up with few workflow templates specific for SharePoint in Visual Studio tools for office. This article will give you sneak preview about the sharepoint workflows and also provide details on why should we use the sharepoint workflow templates of Visual studio 2008.

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.

When creating new code files or designers that include code behind the design window, using statements are added automatically. With the Organize Usings command, redundant using commands can be automatically removed and the remaining items can be sorted.

This application deletes links from the Recent Projects list on the Start page of Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008

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 Team System 2008 now includes code analysis tools in the Development and Team Suite editions. Using the code analysis feature, your code for managed assemblies can be scanned to ensure compliance with standard programming and design rules.

After a long beta period, Visual Studio .NET 2008 is finally on general release. There are a ton of new features and enhancements in this release that make it almost a no-brainer to upgrade - I thought I?d take a moment and list my top ten favorites in no particular order.