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This Visual Studio 2005 Add-In solves two problems that occur when using the built-in Find & Replace functionality of Visual Studio 2005 with regular expressions:

1. Find & Replace does not use the same regular expression syntax as the .Net RegEx class. Although neither syntax is better or worse per se, this requires you to remember two different syntaxes for basically the same thing.
2. Find & Replace with regular expressions is incredibly buggy in Visual Studio 2005. Especially when using expressions that include line breaks there are major problems, including captures not capturing anything or capturing the wrong text, and it is even possible to crash the IDE with a simple find pattern.

For installation and usage instructions, consult the readme.txt file in the archive. Reportedly, this add-in does not work with the Express editions of Visual Studio 2005, the full version is required.

Source code and binaries are included in the archive.

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This application performs extensive checks to see if every publicly visible type or member is properly commented.

Microsoft Windows Vista has brand new common file dialogs, but unfortunately the OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog and FolderBrowserDialog classes from System.Windows.Forms do not use them; they still get the old-style dialogs.

This .Net 2.0 class library provides equivalents to those three classes that provide the same functionality, but do use the Vista style dialogs if possible. The classes automatically fall back to the old style dialogs on older versions of Windows so you can target all Windows versions without additional effort.

See readme.txt for usage instructions. Source code and binaries are included.

Find as you type functionality similar to Firefox, for Internet Explorer.

A small system-tray application that allows you to control the screen brightness on your laptop or Tablet PC.

Requires Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or higher, and a compatible display driver.

Source code and binaries are included in the archive.

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Easily enable and disable your network connection from the command prompt.

Requires Windows 2000 or higher. For usage instructions, check the included readme.txt

Source code and binaries are included in the archive.

Channel9 Sandbox thread