Blobber is a simple command line tool to exchange data with Windows Azure Storage. It built in C# .NET and has variety of uses. Usage Example: Upload - C:\Blobber -u test.txt Download - C:\Blobber -d D:\test.txt

The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer Engine is a general purpose framework that allows a user to programmatically scan different types of system objects (WMI, XML, Windows Registry, etc.) and evaluate data from those objects against a compilation of best practices and rules. The BPA Engine comes preinstalled with a Shared Source best practices analyzer plug-in for ASP.NET 2.0 configuration, documentation on how to create new rules, and the engine itself. This project is part of the Power Toys for Visual Studio, and is led by the Developer Solutions team at Microsoft.

The Microsoft Forums Moderators Toolset is a community project geared towards creating an advanced toolset for community moderators of the Microsoft Forums (forums hosted on http://forums.microsoft.com). The Moderators Toolset will include advanced search, community tagging, question assignment, bookmarking, and other features that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of community moderators. This project is part of the Power Toys for Visual Studio, and is led by the Developer Solutions at Microsoft.

Moved to GitHub

This set of add-ins augments existing functionality in the Visual Studio Class Designer and the Distributed Systems Designers. It now supports Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010. The Design Tools Enhancements add-in provides a common set of features that can be used by both t

Member of the Power Toys for Visual Studio Collection - MSBee is an addition to MSBuild that allows developers to build managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 that target .NET 1.1.

MSBuild power tool integrated with file explorer to help building Projects or Solution without launching Visual Studio. It also creates “MSBuildRelease.log” or “MSBuildDebug.log” log file depends on your selection. FYI: You must have “MS Visual Studio 2005” Installed

Member of the Power Toys for Visual Studio Collection - MSE is a lightweight tool that provides a quick and easy way to monitor .NET 2.0 managed processes and their stacks.

The Power Toy Pack Installer is your one-stop download utility for all things power toys. Get latest releases and updates from just a single executable.

SharePointPowerToys team (currently David Walker - Microsoft MVP, Visual Developer ASP/ASP.NET and Stacy Draper - Microsoft SharePoint MVP) provides the PowerQueryWebPart as a very flexible and powerful webpart. It can utilize any assembly (that implements the IPowerQueryDataProv

Resource Refactoring Tool is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard or above that allows developers to refactor string literals in to resource files directly from the code window.

The most complete solution for Team System Code Reviews: a specific work item type and a Visual Studio add-in for a completely in IDE code review experience. TeamReview exploits the advantages of Team System and VSX to reduce waste and surface new business value from code reviews

Member of the Power Toys for Visual Studio Collection - TFS Admin Tool allows a Team Foundation Server administrator to quickly add and modify user permissions to all three platforms utilized by TFS through one common interface.

The TFS Integration Platform enables developers to build tools that integrate other systems with TFS. Building one way and bidirectional tools for VC and WIT is much simpler with this platform, as most of the TFS interaction and migration/sync actions are provided for you.

VSCmdShell provides users with a shell window inside Visual Studio IDE that can be used for Visual Studio commands as well. Current version allows user to use either Windows Command Shell or Windows PowerShell.

Visual Studio addin to manage multiple window layouts within Visual Studio 2003 and 2005.