20 Nov 09 Easy way to have custom icons in Visual Studio AddIn
I’ve recently been developing a Visual Studio AddIn and I wanted to use custom icons for a command I had. Looking for a solution I found the offical MSDN article on the subject, that might possibly be the most misleading and useless article ever. Add the resource file in Visual Studio, then exclude from project, rename your images to numbers, edit with Notepad and then build satellite assemblies on the commandline? Really? That is a horrible way to do it and not at all necessary. I’ve found a very simple and easy way to add these icons without all that hassle.
12 Nov 09 ZenCoding Visual Studio AddIn
4 Feb 2010: I’m no longer working on this addin and cannot provide support for failed installations. I gave some information about possible causes for failed installations in this comment, you can see if that helps, or discuss with other users in the comments. There are unlikely to ever be new versions of this addin published by me, but Boris Sevo has forked the project and has a version with a newer zencoding library at http://zencoding.codeplex.com/. So go there for updates 
The original blog post about the architecture of the addin is now completely out of date as 90% of the addin is now written in IronPython with just a tiny shim layer of C# to instantiate the IronPython classes. I’ll probably write a blog post about that architecture seperately (or generally about how to write addins for VS in IronPython). Those interested in the architecture can download the source and look at it.
A nice tutorial with screenshots on how to setup the keyboard mappings and use the addin has just been posted at http://www.netsi.dk/wordpress/index.php/2009/12/02/zen-coding-a-very-fast-way-of-generating-html-elements-in-your-editor/ so go there for your setup instructions. And there is now a dedicated rss feed for updates at http://tech.einaregilsson.com/zcupdates.aspx so subscribe to that to be notified of new versions. Eventually I’ll put an update check in the addin itself.
ZenCoding.VisualStudio v1.1.0.333
25 Sep 09 URL-2-Titlebar Firefox Add-on
Recently I got a request in the mail from a user of one of my Firefox add-ons. He asked me if I could make an add-on that displayed the url of the current tab in the titlebar instead of the actual title of the page being shown. I’m not interested in creating more add-ons for Firefox or Thunderbird, they take up quite a lot of time with user requests, getting approved by the Mozilla addons site, etc. That is why I’ve discontinued 6 out of the 9 add-ons I’ve created. But anyway, I knew that it would be trivial to make this add-on so I decided to help this person out. (more…)
01 Aug 07 Mozilla Extension Generator
Since I started creating Mozilla extensions I spent a lot of time writing boilerplate code, and copying from one extension from the next. Then I found Ted Mielczarek’s Extension Generator which is a great page that takes some parameters and creates an extension ready for you to use. I used that for some time but in the end I still kept modifying each extension to fit my own style and include my library functions. So I decided to make my own Mozilla Extension Generator in Python (more…)
