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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

The Visual Studio 2008 SP1 addresses issues discovered through customer and industry partner feedback, plus internal testing. With this update, you'll see improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance, plus some fantastic enhancements to support the latest platforms.

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TeamCompanion for Outlook

TeamCompanion is an Add-In for the Microsoft Outlook that integrates Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

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VSGesture

Mouse Gesting at visual studio 2005, 2008

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Visual Guard

Visual Guard adds security features to .NET applications. With Visual Guard you can manage users, define to which applications they have access to, grant users authorizations.

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Data Dynamics Analysis

Free-form, visual analysis component for Visual Studio.NET to embed interactive OLAP, visual analysis, and business intelligence, including end user tools for both structured and unstructured data.

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Dispatch

Dispatch adds enhanced FTP support to Visual Studio for ASP.NET web projects.

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TeamReview

The most complete solution for Team System Code Reviews - a specific work item type and a Visual Studio add-in for a completely in IDE code review experience

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Flexible TreeView 1.2

The most flexible TreeView-ListView .NET control with many unique features inside like text wrapping,HTML tags support,columns,sorting,themes,drag & drop,multiselection,alpha blending,load on demand.

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Snippet Designer

An open source plug-in for Visual Studio which adds the ability to edit code snippets inside the IDE and adds the Snippet Explorer tool window which allows you to easily search for snippets.

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Delphi Prism

Delphi Prism™ is a .NET and Mono development solution featuring the Delphi Prism programming language, heterogeneous database connectivity, and support for the latest .NET technologies.

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DevExpress Reporting Tool for WinForms and ASP.NET

The no-compromise .NET reporting platform for Windows Forms and ASP.NET. Fully integrates into Visual Studio, includes rich charting capabilities and end-user designer built with DevExpress controls.

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.net CalendarGo! Gantt+Outlook

Resource scheduler with Gantt chart functionality like MS Project and Daily, Weekly and Monthly calendar like MS Outlook controls. Scheduler can manage resource for example: hotel room, a person, etc.
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