XamlHack is a XAML authoring tool which can be used to develop or test a small pieces of XAML code.This tool is lightweight and easier to work with when writing some trivial WPF applications.

Screenshot

Features

• Basic text editing features & syntax highlighting for XAML
• XAML preview with element tree viewing capability using "Element Tree Explorer" 
• Examine the default value of DependencyProperties using "Property Explorer"
• Convert BAML to XAML using "Resource Explorer"
• Last but not least, peculiar error warning. 

Download XamlHack

Read more about XamlHack

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.

Download SVN Time-Lapse View

[Via larkware news]

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]

Microsoft announced the new beta of Windows Live Writer, this is the last beta before final release.

Some features of this beta version:

• Insert videos using our new ‘Insert Video’ dialog

• Upload images to Picasaweb when publishing to your Blogger blog

• Publish XHTML-style markup

• Use Writer in 28 additional languages

• Print your posts

• Justify-align post text

• Better image handling (fewer blurry images)

• Resolved installation issues from last release

• Many other bug fixes and enhancements

Download Windows Live Writer Beta

Please note that changes in this version may affect plug-in developers.Read more on this post…

If you can’t run WLInstaller - check out this post (in German) you find at bottom of the page direct link to WLW Beta 3(English).