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

Create tuned server appliance installs, live CDs or DVDs, live USB keys, etc.

A new approach to creating scriptable apps: allow your users to use an ordinary PowerShell console to access your application's objects (which are explicitly hosted in another PowerShell runspace) at runtime, including tab expansion and piping objects into and out of your application....

cleever idea and a nice tutorial!

An amazing XML/XSLT tool which lets you edit and create XSLT templates with full intellisense, live preview windows, and boatloads of features.

Microformats are about enhancing the web, representing data in HTML and moving that data around. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats.

The Touchless SDK enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. Yeah ... touch without touching. The main idea: to offer users a new and cheap way of experiencing multi-touch capabilities, without the need of expensive hardware or software. All the user needs is a camera, which will track colored markers defined by the user.

An Out-Grid cmdlet implemented in what may possibly be the most complicated fashion ever ;-) David Barnhill has created a WPF app which you can instantiate from PowerShell by sending output to it... but the cmdlet actually creates a separate application object (a new process) and then communicates with it (using WCF) to send it the grid data.

Some cool tech there, but it seems like he might as well have made Out-WPFGrid into a stand-alone app -- and it seems like that would have been easier?

Creating factories via reflection

Expect is an extension to the Tcl scripting language to create an automation and testing tool for CLI applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, ssh, et., and because it wraps the standard command-line interface, it can be used to automate any arbitrary applications that are accessed over a terminal.

Microsoft Research's Singularity project is an academic project which created a fully managed OS in C# ... it's now on CodePlex under a sort-of academic not-for-profit license.

PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the classic Model, View and Controller concept. Based upon proven design patterns, this free, open source framework which was originally implemented in the ActionScript 3 language for use with Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR, is now being ported to all major development platforms.

This is really sort-of a must-have tool for anyone who's using Visual Studio... especially if you don't have R# or anything...

A Snippet editor integrated into Visual Studio, plus the ability to create snippets from text selection.

Mapeed.AddressChooser is a Javascript script to create a nice address form for any websites that need to collect addresses. For example getting user's address, place's location or anything that can be localized on a map. This script just add behavior on HTML form, it does'nt geerate HTML markup and can be plugged on any existing forms.

Visual Studio Lab (VSLab) exploits the power of F# to provide an interactive environment similar to MatLab and Mathematica ... and allowing you to easily create additional Add-ins and interact dynamically with them ...

Gives you the ability to create hyperlinks within your code comments... that is, links to comments from comments ... it's almost like wiki comments (ah, we can only dream).

The CodePlex Foundation was created as a forum in which open source communities and the software development community can come together with the shared goal of increasing participation in open source community projects. The CodePlex Foundation will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities. Initial funding for the Foundation comes from Microsoft Corporation.

NET/Mono 2.0 Component for creating client side proxy connections to SOCKS v4, SOCKS v4a, SOCKS v5, and HTTP proxy servers. Returns a System TcpClient object once the proxy connection is established. Async calls supported. Examples in C# and VB.NET.

Kaltura Community Edition is a self-hosted, community supported version of Kaltura's Open Source Online Video Platform. Following installation any site can gain comprehensive video and rich media functionalities including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing and sharing. It is intended to solve all your video-related needs, and allow you to easily create your own rich-media applications - all behind your own firewall and on your own servers.

The Sensor and Location .NET Interop Library provides an abstraction of the native Sensor and Location API and strongly typed objects for specific sensors for its Sensor Data Report ... You can create strongly-typed custom sensor objects as well as use the three built-in sensors: Accelerometer3D sensors, Light sensors, and Touch Array sensors.