I've decided to try the Visual Studio IDE enhancements from Developer Express after hearing some rave reviews.  One nice thing I noticed is that the installer detects the presance of VS2003 and VS2005 and installs into both IDEs if need be.  I like the philosophy of not having to buy the thing again whenever a new Visual Studio is released.

More specifically, these tools are Refactor! and CodeRush.

One way to describe CodeRush is as a template based code generator on a small scale.  It can insert comon language constructs with a shortcut key combination.  For example if you select a block of text and press t, the selection will be put inside a generic Try... Catch... Finally block.

First impression was that this thing was getting under my feet.  I know how line completion in Intellisense works and I like it.  In fact I preempt it.  Now things have changed aargh!  I might have to back-off the speed at which this kicks in, or maybe its a new trick for an old dog?

Refactor! is a different animal.  It provides Refactorings to your code inside the IDE with previews of the changes that look unreal.  All kinds of useful stuff like in one click you can extract an interface from a class's public definition.  Sweet!

Now all I have to do is learn to type properly, or just buy a better keyboard