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Many people reported that they miss configuration manager drop-down list (Debug/Release) in their VS 2005.

I observed that this happens mostly when you apply VB settings to your IDE. I experienced the same problem. I don’t know why guys at Microsoft think that VB programmers don’t need configuration manager.
You can however get your drop-down list […]

There's not too much to explain about strongly typed collections. There are many articles describing how to implement them. However, there are not so many add-ins or macros that can generate them automatically for you. I needed these collections in my projects as well so I wrote a macro which asks you for item type, [...]

You already know that you can customize main menu and toolbars and you can place commands or macros on them. Unfortunately you cannot customize context (shortcut, right-click) menu this way in VS .NET 2002 and 2003. You simply cannot invoke context menu in Customize mode. You can do it easily in VS 2005.
For VS 2002/2003 [...]

I was cleaning my older VB .NET project some time ago. I just wanted to "refactor" some code to look more readable. All I needed was several replaces of multiline text. VS 2002, 2003 nor 2005 is unable to perform multiline search/replace. So I wrote a macro that can do it.

As you know, you [...]

Visual Studio 2002 and 2003 contains many sophisticated tools but it misses one of the most important - new procedure/property builder. MZ Tools add-in makes a great job here.
If you only need to create new property, I'll show you a simple macro which will help you. It will ask you for property name and type [...]