02
Mar
2008
Today Visual Studio Ecosystem team announced the availability of PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 as a free set of extensions that brings lots of helpful features to Visual Studio IDE. These commands are available with source code to let you learn how to develop new commands or modify them. Some of these features are a part of some editions of Visual Studio 2008 and you can bring them to other editions via these commands.
You need to have Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 installed to be able to open the source code for these commands.
A short list of features that are provided by this project are:
- Collapse Projects
- Copy Class
- Paste Class
- Copy References
- Paste References
- Copy As Project Reference
- Edit Project File
- Open Containing Folder
- Open Command Prompt
- Unload Projects
- Reload Projects
- Remove and Sort Usings
- Extract Constant
- Clear Recent File List
- Clear Recent Project List
- Transform Templates
- Close All
You can download the package that contains the source code of PowerCommands from the announcement post.
[...] probably have heard about the recent release of PowerCommands for Visual Studio (I wrote about it here) which is available as an open source project on MSDN code gallery. Features introduced in this [...]
Hi Keyvan. I posted a video which demonstrates few PowerCommands features. Hope you’ll enjoy it.
http://www.deepakkapoor.net/blog/2008/05/16/video-powercommands-for-visual-studio/