I came across this completely by accident. I was dragging a folder up to the Recycle bin, which I normally keep in the upper left hand corner of the screen (not sure why I was dragging as I usually just use the Del key…), but I must have had my mouse all the way up against the edge of my screen when I let go. A new toolbar docked to the top of the screen appeared!
PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 is a set of extensions for Visual Studio written by Microsoft. You can see a full list at the link above. What you won’t find at the link above (unless I just missed it) is a link to actually download the extension. You can find that at this link over on MSDN Code Gallery. If you have the Visual Studio SDK installed you can even pull down the code and take a peak.
InformIT, the company that owns Addison Wesley, Que, Sams, Cisco Press, IBM Press, Exam Cram and Prentice Hall runs a monthly contest for user group members. You simply go fill out their form and you are entered to win two books from their store. If you are a member of CINNUG make sure to select “Cincinnati .NET User Group” as your user group name. At the end of the month they draw names from all the entries across all of the groups.