Tools Archive

Customizing TFS Process Guidance


This article provides an overview of customizing process guidance for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

T4 Editor by Tangible Engineering


Out of the box, code generation files appear and behave as regular text files in the Visual Studio editor. The lack of color syntax highlighting makes working with code generation templates particularly difficult because code blocks and text blocks blend together. Tangible T4 Editor extends the Visual Studio editor to provide color syntax highlighting and IntelliSense for T4 code generation files.

Regulator by Roy Osherove


Regular expressions are a powerful tool for working with text. Unfortunately, like most powerful tools, it is also complex and difficult to learn. In business application development, I find myself having to use regular expressions only once every couple of month, which gives me enough time to forget how to write them. That’s where the […]

TFS Power Tools


I have been using TFS Power Tools for a while and thought it would be a good idea to mention it now that a new version was released.
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command-line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience.

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Microsoft SharedView


I came across a new live product Microsoft released recently as a beta – SharedView. It is a free online presentation tool, similar to WebEx and Microsoft Office Live Meeting. I found it simpler and easier to use then WebEx. You get all the features you would expect – sharing a slideshow, a document or […]

Fiddler by Eric Lawrence


Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting […]

Resource Refactoring Add-On for Visual Studio


Resource Refactoring Tool is an add-on for Visual Studio 2005 that helps you to quickly extract all copies of a literal string from source code into a resource file. Version 1.0 came out on February 13. Great tool; works as advertised; fits right in with other refactorings.
 
There is one minor problem you might run […]