Solution Factory is a Visual Studio Addin that exports a solution as a Visual Studio multi-project template, so you can provide best practices for specific development project types.
This documentation contains information about the version of WiX distributed with Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario" November CTP. It contains information about:
* What WiX is
* Using WiX on the command line
* Using WiX in Visual Studio
* WiX Schema Reference
* Advanced WiX Usage such as patch building, custom actions, and extensions
* Additional help links and resources
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework delineates the framework and skeleton of Microsoft development techniques through typical sample codes in three popular programming languages (Visual C#, VB.NET, Visual C++). Each sample is elaborately selected, composed, and documented to demonstrate one frequently-asked, tested or used coding scenario based on our support experience in MSDN newsgroups and forums.
CodeRun Cloud Add-in for Visual Studio enables to instantly deploy web applications to the cloud. Open a web project in VS and click "Deploy to Cloud"; VS will automatically compile, package and deploy the project to a chosen cloud hosting site.
PTVS is a free/OSS plugin that turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE. PTVS supports CPython, IronPython, editing, browsing, Intellisense, mixed Python/C++ debugging, profiling, HPC clusters, multiple REPL's, IPython, Django, and cloud computing with client libraries for Windows, Linux and MacOS. This is an officially supported product from Microsoft's Developer Division.
NuPack is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.
There are a large number of useful 3rd party open source libraries out there for the .NET platform, but for those not familiar with the OSS ecosystem, it can be a pain to pull these libraries into a project.
NuPack automates all these common and tedious tasks for a package as well as its dependencies. It removes nearly all of the challenges of incorporating a third party open source library into a project’s source tree. Of course, using that library properly is still up to the developer.
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command-line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience.
Visual WebGui is another 'Web like Desktop' platform that offers an open source framework to develop applications that work in *both* DHTML/AJAX and Silverlight