Scratching an itch
While Visual Studio 2010 is a powerful tool, there are a few caveats to it. First off, if you require some additional functionality from it, then you have to rely on third party add-ins.
CommandLineFu
Checking progress of a shell process
When dealing with processing really large files (300files~15MBeach), it quickly becomes a process that you have to wait a long time for it to finish. I wrote a Java program that manipulated a flat text