Event Log is a central place to log application events. These events can be errors, warnings or just information. Each event log entry in Windows Vista has a level of event, date and time the event occurred, source of event, an event Id and a task category. While event logs such as Application, System, Security [...]

Visual Studio 2008 comes with an Image Library which contains thousands of icons, animations and images which you can use in your applications. You can find the Image Library at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033
Just unzip VS2008ImageLibrary.zip file located at this location and you have most of the graphics used by Microsoft in many [...]

Visual Studio can be extended by using Addins. There already are many useful addins available. Some developed by Microsoft and many by Third Party vendors. Visual Studio Gallery is one place where you can find pretty much every addin and control library available. Some of my favourite are:

GhostDoc
Resharper
AQtime
CodeRush

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