Development doesn't live in the IDE alone. Here, you can download tools and utilities to make your life as a developer easier.
| Sandcastle - Documentation Compilers for Managed Class Library
Sandcastle - Documentation Compilers for Managed Class Library Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. |
| Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements are a set of Visual Studio extensions that are designed to make you more productive. These enhancements are directly integrated into the Visual Studio IDE. Previously, these enhancements were only available via the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. This installation does not require Visual Studio 2005 SDK. |
| Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tools
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. |
| Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.NET
The Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.NET is a tool that scans the configuration of an ASP.NET 2.0 application and identifies problematic configuration settings in the machine.config or web.config files. |
| Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
The Microsoft Consolas Font Family is a set of highly legible fonts designed for ClearType. It is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. This installation package will set the default font for Visual Studio to Consolas. |
| MSBuild Extras - Toolkit for .NET 1.1 "MSBee"
MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 “MSBee” is an addition to MSBuild that allows developers to build managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 that target .NET 1.1. |
| Managed Stack Explorer
Managed Stack Explorer is a lightweight tool that provides a quick and easy way to monitor .NET 2.0 managed processes and their stacks. |
| Team Foundation Server Administration Tool
The Team Foundation Server Administration Tool allows a Team Foundation Server administrator to quickly add users to all three platforms utilized by Team Foundation Server: Team Foundation Server, Sharepoint, and SQL RS, all through one common interface. The tool also allows administrators to change the current permissions on any of the three tiers, identify any errors, and view all of the users and their permission sets across Team Foundation Server, Sharepoint, and SQL RS. |
| Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant 3.0
The Java Language Conversion Assistant is a tool that automatically converts existing Java-language code into Microsoft Visual C# for developers who want to move existing applications to the .NET Framework. |
| Visual Basic Snippet Editor
Are you eager to produce your own Visual Basic Code Snippets but prefer not to think in terms of angle brackets? The Visual Basic Snippet Editor is a Windows Forms application with UI for creating, editing, testing VB code snippets. You can specify snippet code and metadata (e.g., title, author, description, keyboard shortcut), replacement variables, and referenced assemblies. You can preview your snippet as it will appear when inserted into the code window, and you can even test whether it will compile. |
| Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2
Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 is a free plug-in that enables Visual Basic developers to simplify and re-structure source code, making it easier to read and less costly to maintain. Refactor! supports more than 15 individual refactoring features, including operations like Reorder Parameters, Extract Method, Encapsulate Field and Create Overload. |
| PowerToys for the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and Distributed System Designers
The Design Tools Enhancements add-in provides a common set of features that can be used by both the Class Designer and the Distributed System Designers, such as pan/zoom window and rich formatting commands. The Class Designer Enhancements add-in provides additional functionality for the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer, such as HTML export and nested type creation commands. |