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Visual Studio Power Tools

Power Tools are a set of enhancements, tools and command-line utilities.

Featured Power Tool

Download the Feature Builder Power Tool

Start creating rich Visual Studio extensions.

Extensions may include tools, code, and a map.
Package up sample code with documentation or custom menus.
Create complete automated guidance experiences targeted toward a specific technology.
Share your extension with users by distributing a .vsix file, or posting to the Visual Studio Gallery.

Check out the introductory video (which includes a "hello world" example) on Channel 9.

Visual Studio 2010 - Power Tools

	Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools (July 2010) A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
	Feature Builder Power Tool (July 2010) Start creating rich VS extensions. Quickly package up sample code or create complete automated guidance experiences targeted toward a specific technology.
	Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools (June 2010) Templates and extensions that provide additional functionality to SharePoint developers who use the SharePoint developer tools in VS 2010.
	Team Foundation Server Power Tools (April 2010) Team Foundation Server 2010 tools: Alerts Explorer, Best Practices Analyzer, Customer Check-in Policy Pack, Process Editor, Team Explorer Enhancements, TFPT.exe, Team Members, PowerShell Cmdlets, Shell Extensions and Work Item Templates.
	Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider (April 2010) Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider enables integrated use of Team Foundation Version Control with products that do not support Team Explorer integration.
	Team Foundation Server Build Extensions Power Tool (April 2010) Team Foundation Build Extensions provide the ability to execute Ant or Maven 2 builds from TFS and publish the results of the build along with any associated JUnit test results back to TFS. This release is compatible with TFS 2005, TFS 2008, and TFS 2010.
	Pex and Moles: Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools Power Tools that help unit testing .NET applications: Pex automatically generates test suites with high code coverage; Moles allows to replace any .NET method with a delegate.

Additional Resources

VS 2008 - Power Tools and Add-Ons