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title: "\"Ask The Pros\" article about favorite .NET addins at VisualStudioHacks.Com"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/3/quotask-the-prosquot-article-about-favorite-net-addins-at-vi.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/3/quotask-the-prosquot-article-about-favorite-net-addins-at-vi.html"
published: "2005-11-03T12:22:00"
updated: "2005-11-03T12:22:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "There's a new article series over at www.VisualStudioHacks.com (the book) called \"Ask the pros\". It asks various personalities in the .NET world about their favorite hacking tools and methods with VS.NET. I'm proud to…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# "Ask The Pros" article about favorite .NET addins at VisualStudioHacks.Com

By Roy Osherove November 3, 2005 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 3, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

There's a new article series over at [www.VisualStudioHacks.com](http://www.visualstudiohacks.com/) (the book) called "Ask the pros". It asks various personalities in the .NET world about their favorite hacking tools and methods with VS.NET. I'm proud to be included in the same list as some of the most known bloggers and speakers I know.

[This week's article](http://www.visualstudiohacks.com/atpAddins) ask's the pros about their favorite VS.NET Addins. Guess what I replied!

_"Leaders in our software development industry are incredibly productive for a number of reasons, one of which is their intimate familiarity with the ins and outs of the tools they use. This article is the first in the "Ask The Pros" series..."_

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