Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements Released

Microsoft has just dropped a set of Visual Studio 2005 PowerToys.  Here's what you get:

Source Code Outliner : The Source Outliner tool is a Visual Studio extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them inside the editor.

Visual C++ Code Snippets:The Visual C++ Code Snippets tool lets you insert snippets in your code by using a pop-up menu that contains programming keywords. VB.NET and C# languages have this functionality in Visual Studio 2005.

Indexed Find : The Indexed Find tool is a Visual Studio extension that uses the Microsoft Indexing Service to provide improved Search capabilities to the integrated development environment (IDE). It sends the results of a search to the Output Window.

Super Diff Utility: The Super Diff Find tool is a Visual Studio extension that compares text files. It uses color coding and graphics to show the difference between the files in deleted text (red), changed text (blue), inserted text (green).

Event Toaster Utility: The Event Toaster tool is a Visual Studio extension that notifies users about specific events within the Visual Studio IDE.

You can download the new PowerToys here.

4 Comments

  • I tried to load this on a laptop running Vista (Ulimate) 64-bit. At the end, after "appearing" to complete I get the error message "There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected.". I'm running as a local admin & accepted the UAC warning. It then rolls back the install. Anyone else found this? Any ideas?

  • Start a command shell as Administrator (run the shell via "run as admin") and then execute the msi file within this command line.

  • Okay.. I have installed it and don't find it useful.. How do I unistall it? Any ideas? Not finding link to it in appwiz.cpl nor in the Visual studio Add-ins manager.

  • I can't say for sure as I have upgraded to VS 2008 on all of my machines but you might check the Add/Remove Programs wizard and look for an option that says "Include Updates" this will create a heirarchical view of the programs and the VS 2005 Extension might be listed under that.

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