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SVN Time-Lapse View is a cross-platform viewer that downloads all revisions of a file and lets you scroll through them by dragging a slider. As you scroll, you are shown a visual diff of the current revision and the previous revision. Thus you can see how a file evolved, and you can easily find the revision at which lines appeared, disappeared, or changed.

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I’ve made this list of 10 plugins for Windows Live Writer. Some of these plugins will help beatify your published code, while others will help you create code archives or retrieve a link from MSDN.

Insert Code for Windows Live Writer - Insert Code for Windows Live Writer will format a snippet of text in a number of programming languages such as C#, HTML, MSH, JavaScript, Visual Basic and TSQL.

Paste from Visual Studio - Easily transfer syntax highlighted source code from Visual Studio to elegant HTML in Windows Live Writer.

Code Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer - Format and apply syntax highlighting to source code snippets before inserting into your Windows Live Writer posts.

Insert a Silverlight Streaming application - List applications from your Silverlight Streaming account with live preview and embed in blog post using iFrame invocation

BlogMyCode VS2005 PlugIn - BlogMyCode is Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 plugin, that helps you to blog formatted source code, by using Windows Live Writer.

MSDN Locator - Inserts a link to a .NET namespace, class, method etc in the MSDN Library.

Insert Source Code Snippet - Helps you to past well formatted XHTML compatible source code into your blog by using WLW

wlwHtmlSnippetsTool - Allows you to insert simple Html snippets into a post. Stores a list of commonly used snippets. Freeware, open source.

Paste MSDN URL - Removes the culture from an MSDN URL so that the end user’s culture is used in determining what localized content they see.

Visual Studio Solution Uploader - The plugin allows you to select a Visual Studio 2005 solution file, when selected the solution and the directory will be zipped and included in the blog post. All done in a few simple steps. You can even get it to build binaries of the solution.

 Dynamic Template Plugin - The powerful plugin for Windows Live Writer. You can use templates to easily insert oft-used snippets of HTML or text. (by Joe Cheng)

SSMS Tools PACK contains a few upgrades for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express.

Features:
  

1. Execution History (Soft Source Control) - Every statement that you run is logged in a file on your disk or in a table in a database that you specify.
2. Text document Regions and Debug sections Regions behave in the same way as in Visual Studio.
3. New query template - When opening a new query window you can specify a template that will be displayed. 
4. CRUD stored procedure generation - CRUD((Create, Read, Update, Delete))stored procedure generation for tables based on fully customizable templates that you can change to suit your needs.
5. Running custom scripts from Object explorer’s Context menu - You can specify a custom script text, its name and node on Object Explorer on which you want to run it from.

Download SSMS Tools Pack

Terminals is a multi-protocol tabbed desktop client for remote connections.  Right now it can support all of these connection types (simultaneously):

1. RDP - Microsoft’s Remote Desktop aka Terminal Services
2. VNC - Virtual Network Computing
3. VMRC - Virtual Machine Remote Control
4. RAS - Remote Access Service (VPN, Dialup)
5. Telnet - Telecommunication Network
6. SSH - Secure Shell
7. ICA Citrix - Independent Computing Architecture

Features

• Ability to import files such as MuRD and RDP files.
• Tagging connections (grouping)
• Shortcuts (to external tools) and Favorites
• Some toolbar customization
• Full Screen mode, multiple screen sizes and color depths supported
• Minimize to tray
• Single application instance
• Execute before connect
• Completely secure password storage
• Screen capture of entire terminal window

Download Terminals 1.6

[Via Rob Chartier Blog]