Productivity / Microsoft (Tools & Add-ins, Controls & Components)

Create better code, more quickly. CodeRush with Refactor! Pro (CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET) helps developers deliver more features with higher quality in less time, by boosting productivity while eliminating the repetition that erodes creativity. CodeRush with Refactor! Pro (CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET) will help you create sophisticated code blocks in seconds and extend code templates instantly. CodeRush with Refactor! Pro (CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET) will complete identifiers as you type and expand or contract selections logically. With CodeRush with Refactor! Pro (CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET), you will be able to instantly place selected code inside Try/Catch blocks, Regions and your own custom wrappers with ease. You can even reverse the logic of selected code and revisit important points within your code instantly (and effortlessly swap between locations). DevExpress CodeRush with Refactor! Pro includes 1 Year Subscription. CodeRush with Refactor! Pro license also includes the source code.

Provide advanced tools to maximize productivity. VBAssist is a Visual Basic add-in that includes a host of enhanced plug-in productivity tools all aimed at reducing the time you spend developing applications. It attaches itself both visually and functionally to Visual Basic. It provides advanced tools to maximize your productivity but does not alter Visual Basic functionality in any way. You can still use all of the standard Visual Basic functions.

Increase your .NET productivity. ReSharper is an intelligent add-in to Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010. ReSharper comes equipped with a rich set of features including: intelligent coding assistance, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick error correction. ReSharper also supports code refactoring, unit testing, navigation and search. NAnt and MS Build Scripts Editing and ASP.NET Editing are also features ReSharper offers. ReSharper advanced features are available right from Visual Studio. ReSharper is available in 3 Editions: ReSharper Full Edition, ReSharper C# Edition and ReSharper Visual Basic .NET Edition. ReSharper Commercial Licenses are available for companies and organizations as well as ReSharper Personal Licenses for individual developers and ReSharper Academic Licenses for educational institutions and trainers.

Integrate e-mail and Microsoft Outlook with Work Items from Team Foundation Server. TeamCompanion for Outlook is an Add-In for Microsoft Outlook that integrates Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, thus making anyone with Outlook and TeamCompanion a first class member of the Team System based development team. TeamCompanion improves your project communication and removes friction from it. With TeamCompanion you can access project related information using Microsoft Outlook without having to switch between applications. It enables accessing some of the most important artifacts in your Team System environment, such as team projects, work items, etc. without the need to use the Visual Studio Team Explorer or Team System Web Access.

Put your software development process into practice. Select Process Director helps you solve the challenge of researching and rolling out a software development life-cycle process. Select Process Director gives managers more project control and assists developers in being more productive. With Select Process Director you can improve quality while supporting rapid development and easy maintenance. Select Business Solutions invested more than 25 person years in documenting today's primary software development processes. Select Business Solutions (SelectBS) Process Director is preloaded with Waterfall, Staged, Spiral and Select Perspective Life-Cycles. Buy Select Process Director and obtain free of charge 1 Year of Maintenance including all Select Process Director Upgrades and updates.

Add Automated Process Management for Extreme Programming (XP). Select Scope Manager helps developers automate their XP development, speeding the delivery of business critical applications. Using XP (Extreme Programming) significantly reduces development cycle time and costs. Select Scope Manager enables stories, ideas, documents and analysis to be logged. This then allows development teams to estimate and detail the tasks required. with Select Business Solutions (SelectBS) Scope Manager, Stories can then be selected and assigned to releases, based on resources and risks. Each Story then follows its own (defined) development process (each development process is defined on a project by project basis). During the development, progress is monitored and scope is adjusted accordingly by Select Scope Manager. Select Scope Manager also generates automatically Task sheets, project plans, timesheets, velocities, work breakdown charts and project roadmaps. Buy Select Scope Manager and obtain free of charge 1 Year of Maintenance including all Select Scope Manager Upgrades and updates.

Lightweight productivity plugin for Visual Studio 2010. VSCommands provides code navigation and code generation improvements which will make your everyday coding tasks faster and more productive. It includes IDE Enhancements, Debugging Assistance, Build Assistance, Navigation and Search, and Code Assistance.

Restore the synchronization feature within Excel for SharePoint lists. SharePoint List Synchronizer for Excel 2007 and 2010 allows Excel users to open SharePoint Lists in two-way sync. This powerful feature used to work directly in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 but the update ability was deprecated in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010. SharePoint List Synchronizer for Excel re-enables this functionality so now you can export your list to Excel 2007 and 2010, and synchronize back to SharePoint without any extra-effort.

Build, use, and share your own Design Libraries from within Visual Studio. Designbox is a new kind of Visual Studio Toolbox that lets you develop and reuse sets of properties and values called Designs. These control designs can be dragged and dropped directly into your WinForms applications to develop applications more quickly than ever. Designbox also contains a Design Gallery which lets you browse through and apply dozens of pre-defined designs to your WinForms controls with just a single click. 

Full access to your Team Foundation Server from Outlook. TeamLook increases productivity and communication when using Team Foundation Server for your Application Lifecycle Management. TeamLook is an Outlook Add-in that provides full access to your TFS project. With TeamLook you can easily convert emails, meetings, and tasks to Work Items and organize them using Outlook views. Use TeamLook templates for work item creation and increase your productivity with access to TFS queries, quick search, project reports, and email alerts.