# More links...VS.NET PowerToys
2004-01-23T00:00
On a trawl through my Sharpreader subscriptions...ShawnMors' blog had this [link](http://radio.weblogs.com/0120191/2003/06/03.html#a79) .
Some pretty cool toys for VS.NET...
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Take a look at these – they are from Scott Swanson and Jason Weber, and the
VS IDE team…
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I was looking up something on the [VS.NET](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio "http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio") site
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> for VS.NET 2003](http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide "http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide"). There are currently 5 PowerToys available:
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> VSTweak -
> Allows you to modify some of the more obscure VS.NET options and settings
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> VSEdit -
> Command line tool to load a file into currently running instance of VS.NET
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> VSWindowManager -
> Enables you to design your own custom window layouts
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> Custom
> Help Builder - allows you to create a custom help collection for your XML-style
> commented Visual Basic or Visual C# class library. Integrates the custom help collection
> into the VS.NET help system
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> VB
> Commenter - XML-style comment tags for VB
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Future tools include:
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> VSCMDShell Window - One window to access both the VS.NET Commands Window and
> your external CMD.exe process.
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> VSMouseBindings - Assign all five mouse buttons to commands within VS.NET
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> VSTransparency - Make floating windows and pop-up UI semi-transparent in the
> IDE giving you a better view of the code below
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Sweet!
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> [[Harry
> Pierson's DevHawk Weblog](http://www.devhawk.net/default.aspx?date=6%2f2%2f2003#119)]
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