DevExpress has just released a new version of their Visual Studio .NET add-in tool namingly "CodeRush Xpress". This version is Free! Some features refactorings available in this free version. 

I have started using NDepend which, if you do not already know, is a code base analysis tool. I've head lots of good things about it, and I thought it was time to give it a try personally.Installation was as easy as extracting a zip file, and the application was good to run. I noticed application has recognized other tools in my toolset, such as WinMerge, Reflector, etc. automatically.I decided to run it on a Farsi Library project, which is a WinForm / WPF control library I've been working on. There are a couple of views that could help me 

As Scott Hanselman points out in his blog fully, you can take advantage of all your CPU cores when building the solution using MSBuild.Of course this is a luxury you get if you upgrade to Visual Studio 2008, and is not supported in older versions. Fortunately, since MSBuild in VS.NET 2008 (and the IDE itself) supports multitargetting, if you're still using .NET Framework 2.0 you can upgrade to VS.NET 2008 and benefit from this feature.One thing to know before expecting faster build speeds, is to know the dependency tree of your Solution. If your projects are dependent on one another, 

, ToolsResharper 4.0 with CS 3.0 support has just got available. Lots of features are (will be?) added to this version with which you can work on VisualStudio .NET 2008. Some of them are :Extension Methods support.Object and Collection initializers support.Automatic property support.Partial lambda support.The team in JetBrains are still workin on full Lambda and LINQ support so it will take some time to mature.Additional information can be found here which you need to read before you decide to use it or not. 

I was taking a look at Gaston Milano's weblog the other day, and I saw that he has released a new version of his Cool Commands for VisualStudio.NET 2005. There are lots of useful things that should have been in the VS.NET in the first place, like Opening the folder of an item in the tree, etc. but most of all I like the new Resource Editor. Just select a text inside the code editor of the VS.NET and with a click of a mouse, you'll have an entry created in the your resource file!I think this one will come