Active Tools v1.0

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Introduction

Active Tools is an add-in to Microsoft Developer Studio. It has been tested under VC++ v.6 with Service Pack 3 and higher.

This addin provides some useful functions for editing source code: change selection case to upper case, change selection case to lower case, capitalize selection and conver spaces in a selection to TABs.

If you found any errors or bugs I would be very greatful to recieve feedback. Your suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Disclaimer: This software is provided as-is and with no implied warranty of any kind. Please don't place any blame on me if it does something untoward to your system.

Installation

1. Copy "Active Tool.dll" to the add-ins folder of Developer Studio: C:\Program Files\DevStudio\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\AddIns
2. In Developer Studio, go to the "Tools" menu and select "Customize...".
3. Go to the "Add-ins and Macro Files" tab (the last one). Select the checkbox "Active Tools", and click "Close".
4. Developer Studio adds a new toolbar with the Active Tools buttons:
   

Button	Caption	Description
	Change case to upper	change case of selected text to upper
	Change case to lower	change case of selected text to lower
	Capitalize this string	capitalize selected text
	Convert space to tab	convert space at the begin and end of selected text to tab
	About	about Active Tools Addin

To deactivate Active Tools, perform steps 2-3, but remove the selection from the Active Tools checkbox.

To completely uninstall Active Tools:

1. Exit Developer Studio.
2. Delete "Active Tools.dll" from your Developer Studio add-ins folder.

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