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I am using VS2008 at work with no plans to upgrade in the near future. I sorely miss the features of PowerCommands that I have for VS2010+.

Here is the gallery but it references the archive.

All of the old links point me to http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands which has been retired. I couldn't convince archive.org to cough it up either.

Does anyone have a link to this addin anywhere?

Alternately, if anyone has some replacements I'd be just as happy.

The functions I miss most:

  • Collapse Projects
  • Copy/Paste References
  • Insert Guid
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  • For some reason one answer has been removed. Here is a screenshot for further reference: http://i.imgur.com/eW21Smy.png Softopedia url: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/PowerCommands.shtml – Highmastdon Oct 30 '14 at 10:43
  • PowerCommands was a sample project (http://dotneteers.net/blogs/divedeeper/archive/2008/04/17/LearnVSXNowPart19.aspx). I believe you can find the source here: https://code.google.com/p/huiqiu/source/browse/trunk/+huiqiu+--username+iceeer/project/?r=72#project%2FPowerCommands – Simon Mourier Nov 01 '14 at 08:45
  • In case the link in the accepted answer ever goes away (because it will). The SHA256 hash of the MSI file that I installed is 573CD5D154D3049EDF64597B5E2E52C4DC45EA018337DB81B5AD343C3B7C4D35 – Ronnie Overby Oct 13 '17 at 15:11
  • You can also get a hold of it here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1d72d2f7a8295a3407ea47fb54611ad1 – Ronnie Overby Oct 13 '17 at 15:18

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Contacting Microsoft did the trick for me. At https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=38EB61838A7224E1%21107, you can find what you need :) Besides the Visual Studio 2008 PowerCommands, you can find a bunch of other tools, fixes and packs over there.

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  • @Obsidian how doesn't this provide an answer to the question? The questions states clearly: "Does anyone have a link to this addin anywhere?" Also the bounty is worthy I think: "The bounty winner should at least provide the requested Power Commands for Visual Studio 2008". – Highmastdon Nov 04 '14 at 08:59
  • Fair enough, I retract my statement. – DreamTeK Nov 04 '14 at 09:28
  • @Highmastdon Well the problem is, that the whole question is off-topic, as it asks for an off-site resource. The other problem is that answers to such questions can be only links, and link-only answers are considered a bad practice. – BartoszKP Nov 04 '14 at 11:06
  • That's correct. But for the reason that you can't use attachments here, you can only use links to ask for such thing. But that brings back the fact that the question might be indeed off-topic – Highmastdon Nov 04 '14 at 11:40
  • Chrome has blocked this downloads, as It states the content is malicious. – no9 Sep 08 '15 at 07:58
  • My Chrome hasn't. ("Version 46.0.2490.80 m Google Chrome is up to date.") – JMD Nov 03 '15 at 17:19
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Here's another thing I've found: CoolCommands, also described here. This add-in is PowerCommand's predecessor and, by the description, it includes:

Collapsing all projects in the solution explorer

Opening a Command Prompt at a location

Opening the project’s folder

Switching to a demo font

Using your mouse wheel to zoom

Sending code selections via e-mail

and copying references.

There is an important information on how to install them on VS2008. The "install.bat* file needs to be modified, to register within the correct VS version:

regpkg CoolCommands.dll /root:Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0 /codebase

or for VS2008 SP1:

regpkg CoolCommands.dll /root:Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0 /codebase

(depending on your VS path).

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  • I'll have a look if it works :) Thanks so far – Highmastdon Oct 30 '14 at 09:14
  • I'm not able to add these to Visual Studio 2008. Tried this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4653436/how-to-visual-studio-add-in-manager. This is the tool from Reflector (http://documentation.red-gate.com/display/REF8/Using+the+.NET+Reflector+Power+Commands). So It's not the version I'm looking for. – Highmastdon Oct 30 '14 at 10:18
  • @Highmastdon OK, sorry to hear that. I've found nothing more unfortunately. – BartoszKP Oct 30 '14 at 10:27
  • @Highmastdon I've found a package that seems to match most of requirements in the question. Please let me now if this works for you. – BartoszKP Oct 31 '14 at 19:37
  • Thank you, this might serve as an alternative, though the other answer provides the tools in question. – Highmastdon Nov 04 '14 at 09:03