I don't seem to have posted anything this week, so I feel I really ought to rectify that... So, here's a few words about some Visual Studio Addins that I use regularly.
1. GhostDoc
This addin helps you generate source documentation. It's such a faff writing what are often no more than restatements of the name of the function, but this addin takes care of a lot of it for you. It's written for C#, but can be used for VB.Net as well (to an extent).
For example, the VB.Net function:
Private Function Translate(ByVal sourceXml As String, ByVal xslFile As String) As String
gets the comments:
''' <summary>
''' Translates the specified source XML.
''' </summary>
''' <param name="sourceXml">The source XML.</param>
''' <param name="xslFile">The XSL file.</param>
''' <returns></returns>
Private Function Translate(ByVal sourceXml As String, ByVal xslFile As String) As String
2. CodeKeep
An on-line repository for code snippets. Ok, I keep a few on my main website, but with this plugin they're browsable from within Studio.
3. CopySourceAsHTML
This one adds a context menu into Studio that allows you to copy the highlighted text, formatted as HTML, retaining the colour and style information used in Studio. A nice solution to the code colouring problem that those of us with techy blogs have! It's what I've used for the comment snippets above.
N.B. The above tools all work with Visual Studio 2005. I have no idea about other versions!