Livin' the life...

While perusing the ASP .NET site a day or two ago, I came across the "CSS properties window" addin (to VS 2005), in the Sandbox projects section. After reading the description I thought it looked fairly OK so I downloaded it and after giving it a whirl, I'd give it a (y)!

Essentially it's just a addin that enables you to edit CSS in-line styles and style sheets much more easily than in native VS 2005. Two of the features I particularly like are:

1. It allows you to edit styles of multiple elements
2. It gives a nifty window to work with that can be manipulated just like the Solution Explorer, Server Explorer or Properties windows.

The only thing I don't like about it, .. which is something I don't like about VS 2005 in general, is that I think MS should use Hex for colours instead of using colour names, (as you can see an example in the pic above/to the right).

To view more about CSS properties window and grab the download file, check out the official site.

One gotcha though is that: "The CSS Properties Window doesn't work with Visual Web Developer (I believe this is the free version). You may use it with Visual Studio 2005 Standard edition and above."