I've got really mixed feelings on Visual Studio Extensibility. On the one hand, I can't imagine an IDE that comes even close to offering the flexibility, extensibility and overall great developer experience that Visual Studio offers. I'm sure I'm not alone when I tell you that I could never go back to a world without debugger visualizers, Intellisense or ReFactor/Resharper! plug-in support.
Then, there's the whole other world of VSX. The world where you have to go through zillions of pages of SDK documentation to figure out the best way to design, develop and then deploy your great idea for Visual Studio. You might imagine my surprise today when I stumbled upon this gem of a web site that showcases the greatest VSX projects of all time.
Microsoft's Visual Studio Gallery
Has everyone but me already known about this? I found the most bad-ass, super wonderful, awesome-est and groovy-est add-in for Office on this site -- TeamSpec by Personify Design. This little gem sync's up parts of Word documents with TFS, a feature I've imagined in an ALS tool for at least the past 5 years.
This type of thing will make ya' wonder -- what other little gems exist out there that we don't yet know about?
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