On a trawl through my Sharpreader subscriptions...ShawnMors' blog had this link . 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 site
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> for VS.NET 2003. 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]

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