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		<title>The toolbox</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not too big on bloating my Visual Studio with addons and whatnot, but there are a few tweaks here and there. My Visual Studio color scheme is a slightly tweaked version of the Desert Nights scheme by Thomas Restrepo. You can grab it for Visual Studio 2008 here. I also use the awesome Sonic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not too big on bloating my Visual Studio with addons and whatnot, but there are a few tweaks here and there. My Visual Studio color scheme is a slightly tweaked version of the <a href="http://winterdom.com/weblog/2007/11/12/DesertNightsAVS2005ColorScheme.aspx">Desert Nights</a> scheme by Thomas Restrepo. You can grab it for Visual Studio 2008 <a href="http://www.theiterator.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/theiterator.vssettings">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theiterator.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/vs_screenshot.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-43" title="Visual Studio color theme" src="http://www.theiterator.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/vs_screenshot-300x233.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="233" /></a></p>
<p>I also use the awesome <a href="http://jens-schaller.de/sonictools/sonicfilefinder/index.htm">Sonic File Finder</a> addon. It allows you to search for files in your solutions. Programming can be a frantic excercise in jumping between numerous code files and the solution explorer is a really poor way to do it. Most of the time you know what file you&#8217;re going for, so just hitting ctrl+, and typing a part of the file name saves you a bunch of time and sanity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theiterator.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/vs_screenshot2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-45" title="Visual Studio with Sonic File Finder" src="http://www.theiterator.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/vs_screenshot2-300x234.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="234" /></a></p>
<p>I also used to use the <a href="http://www.apexsql.com/sql_tools_edit.asp">ApexSQL Edit</a> for its superior performance and intellisense feature but it kinda got rendered obsolete after the release of Sql Server 2008 with its built-in intellisense. <a href="http://www.apexsql.com/sql_tools_diff.asp">ApexSQL Diff</a>, however, is a great tool to have in your belt. It does what you&#8217;d expect: compares database schemas and merges them. It performs surprisingly complicated merges without breaking a sweat. Both of the aforementioned applications by ApexSQL are of extremely high quality, they perform well and are stable as the negation of something not very stable. Highly recommended.</p>
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