Visual Studio Plug-in's - DXCore and CR

Visual Studio Hacks - Research - CR Plugin

"Software metrics help you understand portions of your system which may need some additional attention to cut complexity and ease maintainability. Having access to such data from within Visual Studio gives you real-time feedback as you’re working on your code. The Metrics tool portion of the CR Plugin add-in for DX Core gives you just that.

Developer Express’s DXCore is an integration framework enabling rapid plug-in development for Visual Studio. Developer Express has made DXCore available as a free download in order for other developers to create useful plugins.

CR Plugin, an open source add-in built for DXCore, includes a handy metrics tool as part of its package. The other tools in CR Plugin work only under CodeRush, itself a productivity add-in for Visual Studio’s IDE. The metrics package, however, works well under the freely-available DXCore. ...

The Metrics add-in works on C# and Visual Basic .NET source. DXCore supports Visual Studio .NET 2000, 2003 and has experimental support for 2005. "

Sounds kind'a cool. It's nice to be able to explore a project and focus on the complex code when refactoring, etc.

Also make sure you check out this post on Jay Kimble's blog for more DXCore plug-ins (Downloading the Spell Checker now... ;)