I've been writing a lot of test cases and projects in VS.NET lately. (Ed note: No, this doesn't mean I've abandoned Delphi. I still love Delphi, and use it as my full-time tool. However, I always have - and always will - keep abreast on the entire world of development tools.) One thing that I thought would be cool to have would be a simple expert - or "addin", in VS.NET parlance - to ZIP up all of the source files automatically. I thought this would be a good opportunity to learn about the addin framework for VS.NET, but like a good developer, I thought I'd check to see if anyone else has written this already. In short order, I found an article detailing a tool named ZIPStudio. That article also provides source and a setup msi file to install the addin, but it only works for older versions of VS.NET. A few clicks later, I found the author's web site with an update of ZIPStudio that will work in VS.NET 2005.

After installing the tool, and testing it on a few solutions, it appears to be exactly what I was after. Highly recommended for those of you who want to move project source around between machines.