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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.

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..

..Managed framework for developing Internet Explorer Browser Modules on GotDotNet. It allows one to write Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) using C#. There have been several example on how to do this including on support.microsoft.com, but no framework that I have seen. So I decided to create a framework for this!

There are several examples:

1) Random Home Page - Allows you to configure a series of urls as your default home page. It will select one at random in the list as the starting point and then cycle through them.

2) Logging - Keep track of the sites that you visit. This logs your activity to a local SQL Server 2005. I hope to creating enhanced phishing filters based on the information it collects.

He has only posted source code for the moment.

Check it out!

Internet Explorer Browser Module Framework