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Ranorex is a Windows GUI test and automation library for C++, Python and for all .NET languages. Applications and websites can be automated using Python script or a .NET program. All new Visual Studio 2005 controls are supported and can be automated.

The PerfConsole allows developers to analyze Visual Studio Performance Profiler's reports. It is a simple performance investigation tool which tries to adopt a debugger like experience to drilling into Visual Studio Performance Profiler generated data.

Find out how to use Expression, Microsoft's new XAML design tool, to build advanced user interfaces that incorporate 3D effects and inheritable control styling—and still interact seamlessly with your Visual Studio projects.

MSMQ Studio is a tool where you can manage MSMQ locally and remote, send and receive messages, view messages in XML, text and binary.

MSBee

..MSBee is an addition to MSBuild that allows you to build managed apps in VS 2005 that target .NET 1.1.

Download MSBuild Extras Toolkit for .NET 1.1 "MSBee" Beta 1

Managed Stack Explorer

MSE is a lightweight tool for monitoring .NET 2.0 processes and stack traces. Just copy and run. No installation required.

Download Managed Stack Explorer v1.1

TFS Admin Tool

The TFS Admin Tool allows you to manage users on TFS, Sharepoint, and SQL RS through one common UI.

Download TFS Admin Tool Beta 1

Just ran across the App Verifier that now supports Windows Mobile 5

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d275348a-d937-4d88-ae25-28702c78748d&displaylang=en

If you aren't familiar the Application Verifier tool assesses the stability of an application and detects common programming mistakes. The tool can detect and pinpoint memory leaks, handle leaks, and leaks in graphics device interface (GDI) objects.

Novalys announces Visual Guard, a new DotNet product. With Visual Guard, you can create and manage user profiles and permissions. You can determine precisely what each user can do, see and modify.The application is automatically adjusted to the user connected. You do not need to modify any code in the application. Even a non-technical person can be the Visual Guard administrator (and free the tech team from it).

SSWI is a Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6 Web Interface. It provides remote access to all the features of Visual Source Safe without the need to install software on the end user PC. SSWI is a fully web based system, that will work on any PC or MAC (OSX). SSWI works with VSS 6 and 2005, and includes IDE intergration for VB6, Visual Studio 2002, 2003 and 2005 plus many more popular IDE's