The Powerpoint Presentation and Source Code I used in monday's Visual Studio Integration topic can now be downloaded from this link.

If you just want to install the NVEdit Add-In (with Core Library and Help File), you can download it from this link.

If you have no idea what I am talking about:

NVEdit is a simple Visual Studio 2003 Add-In that I created as a working example for my presentation to the Atlanta C# Users Group. This Add-In allows you to store large "non-volatile" textual data (SQL queries, XML/XSD documents, etc) as an embedded resource in your assemblies. The NVEditor keeps seperate name/value collections (Dictionaries) for SQL, XML, XSL, XSD, and HTML. The values are accessible in a very easy manner at runtime using static members, not too unlike the ConfigurationSettings class of the .NET Framework. Unlike the ConfigurationSettings class however, the NVData values are not stored in the .config file (which is succeptible to tampering).

The whole idea is that this gives you a very viable alternative to cramming stuff that doesn't belong into .config files or into hard-coded string constants.

Here you can see a screen capture of the simple NVEditor UI:

I apologize for the delay in getting this uploaded. I tried (again) to get the RichTextBox to perform colorizing the way I wanted it, and it just wasn't working out (jeez that control really sucks). All of that stuff is ripped out now, and I cleaned up a few other bits since my presentation.

And I also compiled a help file that gets installed as well now (Hooray for NDoc!). Even though it really didn't need a help file. I mean, come on, this is a pretty darn simple tool!