I've been meaning to post this up for a while but never seemed to get around to it. I've been using CodeRush/Refactor! (CR/R!) from DevExpress for a few years now and this was actually the first plug-in I wrote for it. If you're not familiar with CR/R! it's sort of Intellisense on steroids with a bunch of refactoring tools thrown in. OK, that description really doesn't do it justice - I'd suggest taking a look at a few of the videos they have available over on the DevExpress site to get a better idea of what it does. I'd put CR/R! in the "must have" category for any .NET developer. It's actually annoying to use Visual Studio without it installed.

At any rate, this plug-in does nothing more than make it easy to insert a comment that contains the developers name or initials and the date of a change. For example:

// PCM - 8/4/2008 -

Or, if you happen to be located on an XML comment line, it inserts the following:

/// <developer>Paul Mrozowski</developer>
/// <created>08/04/2008</created>

It's language agnostic, so this should actually work in VB.NET as well (it uses the '/''' comments instead). I've tied it to the CTRL-Insert keypress but you can set it to whatever you'd like. To install it, copy it into your C:\Program Files\Developer Express Inc\DXCore for Visual Studio .NET\2.0\Bin\Plugins\ folder. Then start up Visual Studio and go to DevExpress, Options. You should see a new tree option, "Developer Initials". Fill in your name and initials and select whether you'd like it to insert your initials for a line comment or your full name. Then go to IDE > Shortcuts. Expand the Code folder. I created a new folder named "Custom". Click on the icon for a new keyboard shortcut. On the right-hand side, enter the keyboard shortcut (mine is Ctrl+Insert), then in the Command combo select "Add Initials". Then hit OK.

Exit out of Visual Studio and go back in. At this point the plug-in should be active. Try it out by hitting your shortcut key on a new line (or, enter an XML comment. Hit enter, on the new XML comment line hit the shortcut key).

You can download it from here (http://www.rcs-solutions.com/Download.ashx?File=CR_Initials.zip) and it may show up on the DX Core Community Plug-ins site at some point.

Links:

http://www.devexpress.com
http://code.google.com/p/dxcorecommunityplugins/