VisualSVN , the plugin for Subversion in Visual Studio 2003, 2005 & 2008 was just updated with some new good features: New Features Quick Diff   Reviewing changes has never been so easy. Now you don't have to open separate diff window and remember locations of edited code blocks. VisualSVN marks...

The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them. Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files. It works with C# and VB.Net in all project types that...

Microsoft has just released a new website for .NET developers : the Visual Studio Gallery. http://visualstudiogallery.com You can browse and download existing products & extensions for Visual Studio (any version). In the web category you will find some useful tools and controls: DotNetNuke ReSharper...

You might get access to the early bits on the following page . Read more about it on the ReSharper 4.0 EAP Notes page: C# 3.0 support Implicitly typed locals and arrays Extension Methods support Object and collection initializers Automatic properties Anonymous types Lambdas New and updated features External...

The good folks at JetBrains have recently announced that Resharper 4.0 Early Access Program will be available in two weeks. It's like one of those long awaited things like Duke Nukem Forever , but it looks like R# will beat it to the punch, fortunately for me. For those like me, I can honestly say I...

My colleague Jens Schaller has released a new version of his free Visual Studio add-in SonicFileFinder which I regard as a personal must-have on my development machines (along with GhostDoc , obviously). Version 1.9 fixes two bugs (regarding C++ projects and debugging of websites) and adds search for...

<summary> GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from name and type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters...

A new version of Jens Schaller ’s SonicFileFinder is out. This free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 (and now 2008) adds a fast incremental search for files in the currently loaded solution, and it’s is the second add-in I install on every new development maching (the first being GhostDoc ;-). More details...

I have been working a lot with Web Deployment Projects and even wrote articles on it, so I wanted to have a look at what comes with VS2008. It appears that unlike what I thought, Web Deployment Projects will not be part of VS2008. According to the Web Development Tools Team's blog: "We are planning to...

You might download the version 3.0.2 here. Take a look at the full " Complete List of 3.0.2 Release Notes ", or to the following extract: Unit Test Explorer improvements Better ASP.NET support Bugfixes Cross-version license support Remember window positions Provide hotkey to quickly move to begin of...