Daniel Crenna shared my frustration that Visual Studio drag-n-drop doesn't always leave our markup nicely formatted.

So, he wrote a plug-in to do it for us.

Click [ HERE ] to get it for Visual Studio 2008 or 2005

He also offers up the source code so if you want to add some custom formatting rules, you can !

THANKS DANIEL !

I'm a jQuery Fan !

Lance Fisher has made an update to jQuery for Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008

[ Click here to read about it and download jQuery with the Intellisense updates. ]

$49

I'm a tools junkie! Anything that helps be work more efficiently is HUGE for me since every 10 minutes I can "save" in a day is 10 minutes with my Children, talking to my Wife, on my Harley, in the gym, etc.....

I've been a Visual SlickEdit user for many years, you can set it up to look/work like Visual Studio and it has syntax highlighting for EVERYTHING (even stuff I've never heard of) and there are versions for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.

Introducing SlickEdit Tools for Visual Studio.

Now they've come out with 2 tools add-ins for Visual Studio.

• Editing Tools
• Versioning Tools

Each is priced at $49

You can read full feature lists here.

The versioning stuff is interesting but for me the Editing Toolbox ROCKS.

Here are the highlights from their site - download the trial, if you decide to keep it, it's only %40

Aliases and Acronyms:
Use directory aliases to save keystrokes and mouse usage when opening files. Use acronym expansion to save keystrokes when typing class, namespace, or function names in your code.
Auto Code Doc Viewer
Extract header comments into MSDN-like documentation, fully linked HTML help that can be browsed in Visual Studio as a tool window and exported for sharing with others.
Code Annotations
Insert comments and notes about code without actually modifying the source file.
Comment Wrapping
Enable automatic wrapping of any type of multi-line comment as you type. You can also reflow existing comments in the current file.
Icon Extractor
Simplify the task of finding quality icons and applying them to your applications.
Quick Profiling
Fine-tune your profiling to get information about a specific section of code. This feature allows you to time many cases that are not possible with standard profilers, such as timing complex loops, recursive functions, and the time between an object’s creation and disposal.
Regex Evaluator ( *** a must FOR all web developers)
Interactively create and test regular expressions, which are used to express text patterns for searching.
Code Navigation
Use keyboard shortcuts to jump from a symbol to its definition and to list all references for the current symbol.
Word Completion
Use commands to search for and insert additional text from a matching string.

With more code to write than time to write it, I'm a huge fan of anything that helps me code.

Someone recently sent me a link to Home Tomato's Visual AssistX for Visual Studio.

This is a great example of how the 3rd party ecosystem makes the .NET platform great for developers.

I'd type a list of features here but the list is HUGE.

Instead, check it out here http://www.wholetomato.com/products/default.asp

Personal Licence is $99

Wanna make Visual Studio do something special ?

Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell talk VSX with Ken Levy who these days is all about community and showing developers how to extend Visual Studio. A good part of the new hour interview covers topics discussed in the VSX keynote from DevTeach Vancouver in late 2007.

This is probably the biggest exposure for our VSX community activities to date, which complements the VSX CoDe Focus magazine. This podcast interview covers the story and message around VSX: VS as a platform, VS SDK, VS Shell, DSL Tools, VSIP program, plus VSX examples, online resources, roadmap plans around extending VS, community activities, and more.

If you don't already subscribe to .NET Rocks!, you can download an MP3 or WMA version of this audio podcast interview, both are 43MB files.

Posting code to your blog ? 

Check out these links to a Visual Studio Add-In to let you Cut  and Paste code as HTML.

Click HERE and HERE.