Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition - MSDN Forums. Carl J » 15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins. Update:Check out the sequel to this post, “15+ FREE Visual Studio Add-Ins – Part 2“ After some extensive researching (Googling), I’ve compiled this list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster, however, none are guaranteed to help you get with the ladies.
If there’s an add-in that I’ve missed and you think that it should be added to this list, just post a comment with the name, URL, and a brief description. But before doing so, make sure that it meets the following strict requirements: a) It must run within Visual Studio 2005. b) It must be free. So without further ado, here’s my list of 15+ Free Visual Studio 2005 Add-Ins … Update – September 25, 2007: The images for the Add-ins have been temporarily removed. AnkhSVN This is an Add-in for the the Subversion version control system, which will allow you to perform most of the common version control operations from within Visual Studio. Free Windows Resource Editors, Resource Compilers, Resource Hack. The free resource editors and resource compilers (similar to Microsoft's rc.exe) listed on this page allows you to create and edit Windows resources. In the Windows world, "resources" are things like icons, dialog boxes, cursors, strings, version info resources, bitmap/jpeg images, keyboard accelerators, menu resources, and so on.
These resources are created using a visual tool called a resource editor, which lets you paint or design your icons and images, and so on, using a graphical interface. The files you create using those editors are than transformed into a binary resource format (.RES or .OBJ), so that they can later be bound (combined) into a Windows program (.EXE) or a shared library (.DLL). In other words, they are tools originally intended for use by programmers to design some aspects of a computer program. However, the tools are also useful for non-programmers. Related Pages Free Windows Resource Editors, Resource Compilers, Icon Editors ResEdit Resource Editor PixelToolbox GoRC.