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Building Firefox Plugins using Visual Studio

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:01:01 GMT

If you use Visual studio as a development environment and want to develop plugins for Firefox here are a few points to help you get started.

Managed Extensibility Framework Preview Available

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:44:55 GMT

The MEF provides developers with a framework to easily add extensibility to their applications and with minimal impact on existing code. The application developer can define extension points according to the functionality required of an extension, while the extension developer uses those points to interact with the application.

DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:01:13 GMT

John Papa has written an excellent new plugin for Windows Live Writer that makes it super-easy to include a DZone widget in every posting you write! Want more traffic? Use this in combination with his dotNetKicks plugin, and watch your numbers climb!

DotNetKicks PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:31:03 GMT

John Papa created a plugin for WIndows Live Writer that will customize a DotNetKicks link in a blog post.

A Silverlight Calculator with pluggable functions and skins

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:34:09 GMT

OK so I finally found some time to start playing around with SL2 B1 in earnest this last weekend. The results? A Silverlight Calculator. I don't know why but a calculator has always been my HelloWorld, every new programming language or UI stack I learn always starts with a calculator. This thing has Custom Skinning and AddIn support built in.

BlogEngine Extension: Copy Code to Clipboard

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:35:57 GMT

An extension for BlogEngine.net that adds a "copy to clipboard" link to all code posted via Windows Live Writer's Code Snippet plugin.

How to Create Plug-in for Windows Live Writer? Simple Content Source.

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:18:32 GMT

Blog post illustrates how to write simple plugin for Windows Live Writer. Writing content source plugin for Live Writer takes just a couple of minutes.

How To Create Application Plug-ins In VB.NET

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:38:01 GMT

This article walks you through the steps to create application plug-ins using Reflection in VB.NET

Most Useful 20+ Visual Studio A

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:16:03 GMT

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.

.Net Documentor - Productivity Features for VS2005 code documentation

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:19:16 GMT

.Net Documentor is a Visual Studio 2005 Extension that adds productivity features to the IDE's source code documentation fecilities, e.g.: - recursive documentation of all elements in a project (with optional insertion of task shortcuts) - recursive documentation of a type and its members - automatic application of custom text snippets to properties, events and constructors - reuse of base type's documentations

GhostDoc 2.1.0 Released

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:31:01 GMT

Another version of GhostDoc, a VS-Plugin making the sourcecode documentation as easy as ctrl+shift+D, has been released on Jun 24 2007 by Roland Weigelt. He added VB.Net support and better handling of event documentation.

New System.AddIn Namespace in .NET 3.5

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:00:50 GMT

Anybody that has built an application that supports AddIns (aka add-in, plug-in, etc) knows that there are many design decisions to make and quite a few subtleties in implementing those decisions in particular when it comes to discovering addins, version resiliency, isolation from the host etc. In NetFx 3.5 (part of "Orcas"), a whole bunch of classes do all this work on your behalf and all you have to do is make simple method calls to configure the behaviour.

.Net Adventures : View Source Reflector Plugin for Silverlight

Fri, 25 May 2007 12:31:01 GMT

Ernie Booth has wrote plugin for Lutz Roeder's Reflector that takes a URL to a Silverlight host page and locates the assembly for that page.

Visual Studio Plugin GhostDoc 2.0.0 Released

Wed, 09 May 2007 07:16:02 GMT

Roland Weigelt released version 2.0 of his XML-Comment generator plugin for visual studio. It now runs under Vista and he added support for Orcas. All changes can be found in the changelog on his blog. For downloads visit http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/ .

IE7Pro : An ultimate Add-On for IE7

Mon, 07 May 2007 11:01:01 GMT

I've been using IE7Pro for a few weeks and I really really like it. Some would say it brings some of the Firefox goodness to IE7. IE7Pro's Features Enhance Internet Explorer's Tabbed Browsing Capabilities 1. Double click to close tab. 2. Open new tab from address bar. 3. Enable/disable tab browse history manager. 4. Enable/disable crash recovery 5. Move the IE menu bar above the address bar 6. Hide search bar. 7. Modify the maxium number of parallel connections to the web server. 8. Select the external program to view page source AD Blocker Blocks all forms of advertising, including Flash ads, rich media, fly-ins, slide-ins, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware and adware ads, and messenger ads. Super Drag and Drop With 'Super Drag and Drop' enabled, you can open new links by simply dragging and dropping the link on the page. You can also Drag and Drop to search selected words with the default search engine or save the selected photo when Shift is held down. Mouse Gesture Mouse Gesture allow the user to execute commonly performed tasks (open/close a tab, go back, go forward , print , scrolling page etc.) by drawing a simple symbol on the screen. Crash Recovery Crash Recovery automatically restores all opened pages after a crash happened. Save Page to Image Flexible and easy-to-use tool that converts html page from any URL to image. It captures the whole web page's content into JPG, BMP , GIF , PNG or TIFF on the fly. Quick Proxy Switcher Different internet connections do often require completely different proxy server settings and it's a real pain to change them manually. Greasymonkey alike User Script IE7Pro Script is to Internet Explorer7 as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It lets you remix the Web via scripts.

Writing Plug-in for Windows Live Writer

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:29:10 GMT

Writing Plug-in for Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer Plugin - Insert Yahoo and MSN Smileys (Emoticons)

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:10:05 GMT

Windows Live Writer Plugin - Insert Yahoo and MSN Smileys (Emoticons)

Increase Productivity With Search Driven Development

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:31:01 GMT

Search Driven Development is the de-facto software methodology in use almost universally. How to bring it into the IDE.

Increasing application scalability using Plugins (Updated)

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:40:40 GMT

This time I will talk about how to implement a plugin module that loads and runs plugins in your application. now With sample codes in C# (VS 2005)

PowerToys for ReSharper 2.5.1 Now Available

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:01:01 GMT

Power toys are plugins that shows how to use various techniques together. They are a lot more complex than plugin samples and require good knowledge of ReSharper OpenAPI to understand the source code. However they do useful things and can be installed just to add functionality to ReSharper.

SVN + Visual Studio Pluggin + HostingPlayground == Keeping your source

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:31:01 GMT

If you're like me, and you do a lot of little/not-so-little projects on the side, you've started noticing that you're getting quite the source library started. And if you're like me, you also occasionally have the nightmare about your hard drive crashing before you get that chance to back your source up to a CD/DVD or whatever else you keep backups on.

Resilient Plugins Part Deux - Granular Control

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:31:01 GMT

How to override all the basic functionalities of an event: subscription, unsubscription, and, quite an advanced topic, invocation

How to increase application scalability using Plugin Support

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:01:02 GMT

This article discusses implementation details of how to support loading Assemblies in different App-Domains in run time, also how to control the execution and crashes.

Developer : Writing Plugins For Windows Live Writer - Getting Started

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:31:02 GMT

Good basic tutorial to get you started writing plugins for Microsofts new Live Writer tool.

Include Files Don't Grow On Trees

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:39:17 GMT

One guy's experiences of using a new Visual Studio Tool to investigate and explore header file dependencies.