PowerCommands 1.1 is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code is included and requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 to allow modification of functionality or as a reference to create additional custom PowerCommand extensions.

Useful gimmicks are for instance opening of a Visual Studio Command Prompt, which has the right path to the current project on start. I really do like the “Undo Close” function, which helps you if you have clicked accidently a window into nirvana.

Below is a list of the included in PowerCommands:

• Collapse Projects
• Copy Class
• Paste Class
• Copy References
• Paste References
• Copy As Project Reference
• Edit Project File
• Open Containing Folder
• Open Command Prompt
• Unload Projects
• Reload Projects
• Remove and Sort Usings
• Extract Constant
• Clear Recent File List
• Clear Recent Project List
• Transform Templates
• Close All

More about extending Visual Studio can be found Visual Studio Extensibility Development Center.