It looks like the core Silverlight 3 tools are now available:
Though the tools needed for development seem to be public, I’ve yet to see the end-user run-time; though I imagine we’ll see that in the release anticipated for tomorrow.
Time to have some fun. 
Update: Client run-time is now available.
The great Lutz Roeder has released a new version of the .NET Reflector. From what I’ve seen; this version is extremely nice. This has long been a required tool of any serious developer. With this update Reflector has reinforced its position in the list of tools you just can’t live without.
Scott Hanselman provides a great review; check it out for the details on what’s new.
An update to the Visual Studio PowerToy Pack Installer has just been announced. This handy application wraps up many of the PowerToys so that they can be installed from one easy to use UI. With so many of these Power Toys available, this installer is great to have; otherwise finding and installing them can be a slow and painful experience.
If you’re a power user, or fancy yourself a power tweaker, this one might just be for you.
I must have missed the memo on this, but it seems the first service pack for Visual Studio 2005 has been released (release notes). This release should add a lot of stability to the IDE and resolve of number of issues (such as the frequent VB compiler crashes). It’s a rather large download, approximately 450 MB, and is rather slow to install, but it promises to be well worth it.
The one real downside, is that you shouldn’t plan on doing much while it’s installing; the almost 400 MB of RAM consumed during parts of the installation may slow your system to a crawl. So, make plans to do something else while it’s working, because you wont be.
The Sandcastle team just announced a new toy for users of Visual Studio, the Power Toys for Visual Studio Pack Installer. This is a unified installer for the various Power Toys released; no more downloading a dozen installers to get what you want, this one does it all. If you like pushing VS to be all it can be, this is worth looking at.
The coding guidelines at my job have a rather interesting requirement: code must be wrapped at 100 characters. If you fail to meet this on any line of code, you fail the code review. In the year I’ve worked at this company I’ve learned to guess how long a line is quite well. As of today, no more guessing.
Here’s a quick registry hack to add a vertical line in the editor at any column you wish, just double click the REG file and you’re set. The contents of the file look something like this:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
VisualStudio\8.0\Text Editor]
"Guides"="RGB(128, 128, 128) 100"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
VisualStudio\7.1\Text Editor]
"Guides"="RGB(128, 128, 128) 100"
The setting works something like this: The RGB() part defines the color of the line, the number at the end defines the column the line is displayed at. If your style defines a limit on the length of a line, this is a great way to see at a glance if you’re going too long.
Note: This adds the key for both Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.
Update: The original REG file I linked to had a formatting error that caused the data to import improperly. I’ve replaced the file with a working copy.