I just came upon a great little add-on for Visual Studio 2005/2008 by Mikhail Arkhipov.  It's a spell checker for ASP.NET and HTML pages, meaning that it's smart enough to ignore the script and focus on the text for spell checking.  I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I thought that I would share the find with you all.   ...

Code Snippets was one of my favorite "new features" in Visual Studio 2005 and has continued to be in Visual Studio 2008.  If you've never used them, what they are (simple explanation) is a macro-capability built into the Visual Studio IDE.  They allow you to type single/multiple key strokes to define blocks of code.  So ...

  There are a couple of interesting chats coming up on Visual Studio Team System.  On November 1st, the topic will be the new VSTS DB Pro edition.  On November 8th, the chat will include information about the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP).   For more information, see:   http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ ...