After I uploaded the T4 Editor I had very good feedback but people that was working with GAT (Guidance Automation Toolkit) had not coloring for .t4 extensions. Add .t4 extension to the list was the easier part in order to support .t4 templates. When you install GAT from here it installs a special host...

In my previous post I talk about coloring for T4 templates. Coloring is the most important thing in order to improve editing templates. But there are other features that are important in order to editing templates - Outlining. You can hide and show template code regions or output code regions. - Intellitips...

After I released coolcommands I received a lot of suggestions about adding others commands. I received bug reports too :(. So I developed some new commands and fixed some bugs. My favorite new cool command is the Resolve Project References. But Andres Aguiar insists that the coolest is the Copy and Paste...

I ported CoolCommands to visual studio RTM CoolCommands includes: - Reference Manager - Collapse All Project, Command Prompt Here, Open Project Folder, Demo Font and Wheel Font Zooming The Navigation Window power tool it is not included probably in the next version it will be. Installation - Unzip coolcommandsrtm...

Navigation Window — Visual Studio SDK Sample November 2005 Summary: Navigation Window is a tool integrated on Visual Studio 2005 RTM that was written using Visual Studio SDK . It is a real use case that shows several features of the Visual Studio SDK. Introduction to the Navigation Window Sample How...

If you are working with references (assembly or project references) in VS probably sometimes you have to do some annoying tasks: Case 1) Where am I using this reference (i.e.: System.Data) in this solution? Solution: I have to traverse all the projects in the solution and depending on the kind of project...

As you know Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 RC was released some time ago, Chris Anderson ported his AvPad to the new release. The source code is available and you can learn something about IronPython ;) I was trying IronPhyton and it works very well !! Any way this post is not to talk about IronPython, this...

DeKlarit 3.5 is released!!! Integration with Microsoft Enterprise Library and major improvements in UI customization, Addi-in creation and Customization made easy, auto-filtering for related foreign keys, .... If you have some comment about the Visual Studio Integration of Deklarit let me know your comments...

Whidbey beta 2 is released and the VSIP SDK too, so I rebuild the coolcommands with the new SDK in order to have them on Whidbey beta 2. The code is essentially the same, I just changed icons because Whidbey support XP icons. Some commands are essential for me (Collapse all projects, command prompt here...

Some time ago I implemented some commands for VS 2003 that I called WhidbeyCommands because some commands were the same that in Whidbey (Close all but this, Show Container Folder, Copy Full Path). To know more about the old commands read this Simon Chapman post , he documented the commands better than...