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Active Tools v1.0

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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.

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.

Updates

You can download latest version from my site

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Comments and Discussions

 
QuestionIs really an AddIn needed for this ? Pin
14-Dec-01 6:57
suss14-Dec-01 6:57 
GeneralPartially already build-in Pin
Thomas Freudenberg5-Dec-01 10:51
Thomas Freudenberg5-Dec-01 10:51 

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