A step-by-step tutorial on building an Excel 2007 VSTO add-in, using .Net, WPF and MVVM, the Ribbon and Custom Task Pane, to extend Office and create a friendly user interface to identify and highlight differences between two worksheets.

ReSharper 5 has now been released simultaneously with Visual Studio 2010.

For a limited time only, purchasers of ReSharper 4.5 can receive a free upgrade to version 5 and in addition get a 10% discount and 60 day extended trial...

I have had a few emails recently asking if I am still able to obtain the 10% discount coupons and 60 day extended trial for ReSharper

A new version of the add-in. It has two new main functionalities: - Search Results in Grid Mode and through Execution Plans - Generate Insert statements for a single table, the whole database or current resultsets (yes all of them) in grids

SSMS Tools Pack is an Add-In (Add-On) for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005. It contains a few upgrades to the IDE that I thought were missing from Management Studio.

I have collected list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment.

Source Code Documentation for C++/CLI in Visual Studio 2005 is often an annoying thing to do. C++/CLI Documentor implements an Add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that automatically generates the necessary XML comments.