The Start of the Visual Studio Avalanche (Updated April 21 2008)
The Avalanche of add-on's for Visual Studio 2008 has started. I thought it would be useful to keep a list so here it is.
Latest Addition : VSTS Model Power Tool : CTP
Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for Visual Studio 2008
Key Additions
Guidance Automation Toolkit ( Needs the GAX below to install )
Guidance Automation Extensions
Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack the feature pack extends the VC++ Libraries shipped with Visual Studio 2008 and also includes an implementation of TR1
Power Toys
[XSLT Profiler](Windows Server 2008 Datacenter and Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems GKDG2-Q23FQ-DH9PF-42B3K-B3XP9 ) ( this is a must )
an on other useful bits
Visual Studio Database Edition Power Tools
Fixes and Updates
Web Development HOTFIX rollup which fixes a raft of performance and usability issues , you will need to login to connect to get the patch
Currently there are some parts in Beta
Silverlight 2.0 Beta Addin for Visual Studio 2008
External useful tools
SoSex Debugging extensions for .NET 2.0 : if you a looking for deep WinDbg extensions for visual studio
Key Tools
FxCop : Microsoft's extensible code analysis tool
And Some in Alpha
if you are having any problems installing VS2k8 look here
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