MSDN Magazine - October 2008 - (Page 63) VENDOR-SPONSORED CONTENT 3. VSWindowManager VSWindowManager from Microsoft saves your window positions, sizes and auto-hide status and lets you change between layouts manually or automatically. I find this one especially useful when moving back and forth from my dual-monitor desktop system to my laptop. On the Visual Studio Gallery The Visual Studio Gallery is a great place to find the new wave of goodies for the emerging Visual Studio platform and to check out how developers are pushing the limits and removing the barriers to the next generation of development. Whether it’s a commercial product like CodeRush, a Microsoft freebie like PowerCommands or a cool, free time-saver like GhostDoc,you’ll likely find that someone has already done the work to make your life easier.In researching this article,I found no fewer than six new extensions that I now use on a regular basis. Once you use StickyNotes you’ll wonder how you ever got along without them! I’ve also started writing my own extension with the intent of posting it on the site. And, of course, I’ll continue to browse the site for new tools. 2. Power Command PowerToy Power Command adds a whole bunch of really useful things to your right-click menus. For example, the ability to collapse an entire project or solution in the solution explorer or to remove items from your most recently used project list. Links & Resources Visual Studio Gallery http://www.visualstudiogallery.com VSX Developer Center - http://msdn.com/vsx Visual Studio Gallery Templates & How to Use Them http://blogs.msdn.com/acangialosi/archive/2008/03/16/vis ual-studio-gallery-templates-how-to-use-them.aspx Channel 9 Video http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=386361 Mike Yeager has a BA in Computer Science from Rutgers University. During college he started his professional career with xBase development. Mike is a senior developer for EPS Software Corp., in Houston, where he works with many technologies including C# and SQL Server and is the author of several of the Vfp2Net() conversion tools. 1. GhostDoc 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. Gallery http://www.visualstudiogallery.com http://msdn.com/vsx http://blogs.msdn.com/acangialosi/archive/2008/03/16/visual-studio-gallery-templates-how-to-use-them.aspx http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=386361 http://www.visualstudiogallery.com http://www.visualstudiogallery.com
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