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I have good news for all us, Visual Studio users. The Microsoft Visual Studio Ecosystem team has officially launched the new Visual Studio Gallery site. This new web site is a resource center for all Visual Studio extensions and includes everything from free VS PowerToys like tools to VSIP products.
Our VSdocman is listed too. You […]

I saw an interesting request on discussion forums today. A user wants to show the full path of currently edited file in the IDE main window caption. This used to be case in VS .NET 2003 but VS 2005 shows only solution name.

I thought it had to be easy to write macro which does the [...]

VS 2005 generates many types of compile warnings. The most annoying ones are those underlined directly in the source code (all in VB .NET). We cannot get rid of all warnings. For example, our VSdocman allows XML comments also for namespaces. VS doesn't like this and gives the following warning:

XML comment block cannot be associated [...]

Today, a user of our VSdocman has asked me for interesting functionality in Visual Studio. He wants to collapse all XML comments in the file with one click. There is no such command in VS so I wrote a macro that does the job. The macro only works in VS 2005 and only for C# [...]

The SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 is out. Enjoy!