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A bunch of SQL Server related downloads, including the driver for PHP, the Sync framework, reporting services addon for SharePoint, Analysis plugins for Office, etc.

XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers working in the XAML editor. Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools, DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML page layout time.

Adds mouse-gesture support for visual studio 2008 (and 2005?)

The WPF team is particularly excited about .Net 3.5 SP1, calling it the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation ...

DocProject drives the Sandcastle help generation tools via MSBuild and integrates completly with Visual Studio 2005/2008. It lets you choose the project templates to build compiled help, etc., and speeds up writing and deploying project documentation using Sandcastle.

A code-generation tool to work around one of the main limitations of Microsoft's Entity Framework V1 (released as part of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1): lack of support for POCO (Plain Old CLR Object) entity objects -- that is, objects that do not have any persistence awareness programmed in them.

The Snippet Designer is a plugin to make it easy to create Visual Studio 2008 snippets within the Visual Studio IDE.

A collection of color and font themes for Visual Studio 2005 or 2008

Microsoft DreamSpark gives millions of students in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium (and other countries coming soon) software for free ... Visual Studio 2005/2008 Professional Edition, Expression Studio (includes Web, Blend, Media, and Design), SQL Server 2005 Express, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, Virtual PC, Windows Standard Server, XNA SDK, and a 12-month trial subscription to the XNA Creators Club.

IronPython Studio is a free full IDE for the Python programming language based on the existing IronPython example and the Visual Studio 2008 Shell runtime ... and doesn't need Visual Studio installed

VSTrac is a Visual Studio addin which integrates Trac functionality into Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. It's main function is to facilitate management of tickets from within Visual Studio...

DPack is a FREE collection of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 tools. DPack is designed to greatly increase developer's productivity, automate repetitive processes and expand upon some of Microsoft Visual Studio features.

trend spotting

This is a living breathing ARM port contributed by John McIntosh in 2008 and forward. I wonder if there are any Squeak apps in the iTunes App Store yet.

* Indicates file status within the project files tree * Tracks adding, moving and renaming of file actions * Dialogs for most actions using TortoiseHG as its backend.* Compatible with VS 2005, VS 2008 and VS 2010 Beta 2.

Driver for SQLite designer support in Visual Studio 2008/2010

The course is devoted to creation of 64-bit applications in C/C++ language and is intended for the Windows developers who use Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 environment. Developers working with other 64-bit operating systems will learn much interesting as well. The course will consider all the steps of creating a new safe 64-bit application or migrating the existing 32-bit code to a 64-bit system. The course is composed of 28 lessons devoted to introduction to 64-bit systems, issues of building 64-bit applications, methods of searching errors specific to 64-bit code and code optimization. Such questions are also considered as estimate of the cost of moving to 64-bit systems and rationality of this move.

ExtensionMethod.NET is a database of C# 3.0, F# and Visual Basic 2008 extension methods. It contains many user-rated extension methods that will expand your code library immediately.