Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements
Just released!
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements are a set of Visual
Studio extensions that are designed to make you more
productive. These enhancements are directly integrated
into the Visual Studio IDE. This set of enhancements
includes Source Code Outliner, Visual C++ Code Snippets,
Indexed Find, Super Diff and Event Toaster tools. All
these tools except the IDE Event Toaster can be invoked
from Visual Studio’s View.OtherWindows menu group. The
Event Toaster tool can be configured from the Tools
Options dialog under the PowerToys node. The Visual C++
Code Snippets can be invoked on any C++ source file.
Previously, these enhancements were only available via the
Visual Studio 2005 SDK. This installation does not require
Visual Studio 2005 SDK.
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.
If you are
interested in building your own Visual Studio extensions,
you can download the Visual Studio 2005 SDK from
here to get started.