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.

MSBuildShellExtension lets you build .NET projects without ever opening Visual Studio or the command prompt. MSBuild targets can be executed from your file manager...

iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library to C# for the .NET platform. iText# allows you to generate PDF files on the fly...

Doloto analyzes Ajax app workloads and performs code splitting of large Web apps so they can transfer initially only the part of the client-size JavaScript code needed for application initialization...

a jQuery library which abstracts SharePoint's Web Services and makes them easier to use...

Port your .Net applications to Mono and Linux without leaving Visual Studio... @briandunnington

ColorCode is the syntax highlighting code which supports CodePlex

ColorCode is the syntax highlighting code which supports CodePlex -- will someone PLEASE write a PowerShell language for it and donate it to them?

A walkthrough of how to avoid some common pitfalls when doing rendering in WPF: threading, memory, etc.

Encapsulating domain models using domain events

"Textile.NET is, surprisingly, a textile formatter for .NET projects. Textile is a "human web text generator" (http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/) that is useful for rapid web writings such as Wiki syntax or blog articles"

"Version 2.2 of Team Foundation Sidekicks includes Permission Sidekick, Code Review Sidekick, Shelveset Sidekick, Labels Sidekick, History Sidekick, Workspace Sidekick and Status Sidekick in uniform GUI stand-alone application, and Visual Studio Integraton Package providing VS integration for all sidekicks as well as additional features such as Search Items dialog, dynamic History and Build Type editing support. "

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 Express Edition of Persistor.NET® means carefree database storage -- "it is the right tool for all developers who just don't want to care about the database."

Ora is a Visual Studio 2008 add-in that provides an instant grouped overview of the class, interface or struct you are viewing or editing... members are grouped in the order of your choosing, and the view instantly appears when you click in the code of a class, so there is no need to abuse the #region feature.

* Line ruler - Places a "ruler" highlight across your current line * Indentation guide - Draws a vertical bar in the editor indicating the indentation level of the current line. * Auto-copy selection - Copy text to the clipboard when selected with the mouse (and paste on middle-click) Plus Command Spy, File Explorer, Data Object Analyzer, and SLOC Report

Asp.Net MVC is starting to look a bit like WPF ;-) aren't these DataTemplates? "Templated Helpers - allow you to automatically associate edit and display elements with data types. For example, a date picker UI element can be automatically rendered every time data of type System.DateTime is used. This is similar to Field Templates in ASP.NET Dynamic Data."

This is Philipp Sumi, the author (among other things) of the WPF NotifyIcon control

Helps your audience to follow your mouse when you're presenting in Visual Studio.

DryadLINQ is a Microsoft Research project, which aims to make distributed computing on clusters of computers simple enough for all programmers. DryadLINQ combines another Microsoft Research technology, Dryad, with the familiar LINQ technology from the Microsoft .NET framework.

The JetBrains Web IDE is a new Integrated Development Environment for web programming: Html, CSS, Javascript, XML, PHP, and SQL ... and support for version control systems, etc