HighlightCurrentLineInEditor

Here's a Visual Studio DXCore plugin that might be useful.

Rory's Ramblings: New Plugin HighlightCurrentLineInEditor: "a new plugin called 'HighlightCurrentLineInEditor' which unsurprisingly highlights the current active line in the editor in a nice shade of blue"

Coding Productivity Macro

Kirill Osenkov : Coding productivity: macros, shortcuts and snippets

This macro by Kirill Osenkov inserts a pair of curly braces and places the cursor inside them. It's useful when mapped to Shift+Enter.

Sub InsertCurlies()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "{"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "}"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.LineUp()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
End Sub

VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements

David Findley's Blog : VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements: "This macro will take the current selection, parse it for using statements, group and sort them..."

Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks

Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks

Toggling The C# Navigation Bar

Born to Code has a macro for toggling the C# navigation bar on and off. Turning it off speeds up the C# source code editor.

Visual Studio Spell Checker

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog : Spell Checker for HTML and ASP.NET pages: "Spell checker works in Source view, it is able to extract text from markup elements and use Office 2003 spell checker to check the text. Spell checker is able to handle entities to some extent (they are considered whitespace for now). It is also able to spell check values of attributes that typically contain human readable text."

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Macro

Coding Horror: Keyboard shortcut summary macro - Queries the Visual Studio IDE for the actual keyboard bindings and produces a web page that lists your keyboard shortcuts.

Visual Studio 2005: C# Code Snippets

The C# code snippets equivalent to the VB snippets that shipped with VS 2005 are finally out.
Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets

Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products

Microsoft has some .NET 2.0 development tools at MSDN Lab that have gone to beta and can be freely downloaded. They include "Visual C# 2005 Express", "Visual Web Developer
2005 Express", and "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition".

Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products

Here's a couple of links with some more info:
Whidbey Beta 1 Ships
Visual Studio 2005 Express Products (Includes a link to MSDN Express that didn't seem to be with the other express products)

Application Blocks Links

Useful URLs:
The article has links to information on:
Leveraging Application Blocks in Your Applications
Rapid Application Development with Visual Studio 2005
XML, XQuery, and CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

VSTweak PowerToy

VSTweak PowerToy
A PowerToy for Visual Studio.NET, it has a MRU Lists Manager that allows you to clear recent files and projects.

It can be used as a fix for when Visual Studio.NET is slow in starting up.

.NET Users Group

I went to the April meeting of the local .NET users group tonight. It was held at Centriq University. I ran into Marlin, Richard, Galen, and Ovace who are some former co-workers of mine.

Highlights from the meeting:

• There's a new .NET Book Club.


• SQL Server Reporting Services lets you design reports in Visual Studio.NET 2003 and is free if you have an SQL Server license. It uses Report Definition Language, an XML-based schema for defining reports.


• The presenters recommended that we visit the MSDN XML Developer Center because XML development is changing radically and we'll probably have to rewrite all our XML code in the near future.


• The main presentation was a demonstration of Whidbey (Visual Studio.NET 2005) by Steve Loethen, the Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the MidAmerica District. It was pretty interesting although it was fairly similar to the demo I saw at DevDays. Whidbey has some very cool features that I'm looking forward to using. The Virtual PC software he was using also looked interesting although it seemed to be having some problems with XP service pack 2.

Visual Studio: Download Service Pack 6

Visual Studio: Download Service Pack 6

Debug JavaScript in ASP.NET Apps

Infragistics has got an article on using Visual Studio.NET to debug javascript apps.

Debug JavaScript in ASP.NET Apps

Visual Studio .NET Shortcut Key Guide

O'Reilly has posted Appendix C. Shortcut Key Guide from the book Mastering Visual Studio .NET.

There's also another copy of it here.