Microsoft’s Visual Studio is a great framework to develop nearly anything you need. The open source world has some unique plugins for this awesome tool and most of these tools are really usefull. What really got our eye are:
Visual Nunit
Visual Nunit is NUnit integration for Visual Studio 2008. Provides convenient view to test cases and enables debugging tests easily inside development environment. Implemented as Visual Studio Integration Package.
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GIMPVS
GIMPVS is Gimp Latest trunk compiled using Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 Editions. Entirely Compiled using Microsoft(TM) Compilers and linked against Microsoft(TM) Dynamic runtime libraries, GIMPVS is packaged for both Artists and Developers.
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VisEmacs
VisEmacs is a Visual Studio Add-In that allows Emacs to be integratedas the default text editor. It will be used instead of (or in addition to) the Visual Studio built-in editor.
PHP IDE / Editor : dotView Visual Studio
dotView Visual Studio is an open source IDE for dotView PHP framework. Main Functions : syntax highlight, break point and debug, integrating WAMP environement, and RAD tools. Support : PHP5, JS, CSS, HTML, XML, DOJO, JQUERY, SVN, FTP…
.Net Scripting Control
Features of MS Script control (Functions like AddObject) and some features of VSA/Visual Studio editor .Mini visual studio IDE build in single control with feature like AddObject from MS Script Control.
The VisualDDK is a plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio allowing debugging device drivers right from the IDE. Additionally, a simple Driver Project Wizard is provided.
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PhatStudio
PhatStudio is a Visual Studio plugin which lets you quickly navigate to any file in your project in just a few keystrokes, even for very large projects.
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Toolbar Editor
A toolbar editor for Visual Studio. It can modify, add and create buttons, images and all that is needed for a toolbar.
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Great stuff – thanks
nice nifty collection but I am not sure how many people would be using them.