Extensions

Previously on Visual Studio Toolbox, we started looking at the Productivity Power Tools. In this episode, we explore additional features of this excellent extension. We will see enhancements to the Document Tab Well that make it easier to work with code files, and we'll take a look at both the…

Welcome to the debut episode of the Visual Studio Toolbox, a show that will focus on tooling both in and outside of Visual Studio. The goal is to help you become a more productive developer. In this episode, we will start to explore the Productivity Power Tools, a freely downloadable…

Quan To, a program manager on the Visual Studio Platform extensibility team, recently created a video that shows you how you can upload and share your extensions with others using the Visual Studio Gallery.

One of the cool things about the desktop blogging application Windows Live Writer is its extensibility through the use of plugins. We’ve covered many of these before, including the Zemnta plugin, the Tweetmeme plugin, and 10 other of our favorites. Now there’s a new one to add to the list - I just…

One of the big initiatives for Visual Studio 2010 was to incorporate the community directly into the IDE itself and the extension manager was created to achieve just that. This newcomer to VS allows the user to consume extensions posted to the Visual Studio Gallery right from within VS itself. It…

It should be no surprise to those of you playing along at home that there's far too much information on the net, and thus anything that helps us move more quickly is a welcome addition to our digital lives.Cooliris has developed a set of browser extensions that, "give you the power to quickly…