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Greg Trevellick edited this page Jul 25, 2018 · 6 revisions

Why did I build this software ?

I'm a standard developer with a nine-to-five job. I'm not an MVP, a Google developer expert or similar. I don't work for Facebook, Google, etc.

But a few years ago, mainly because of a specific use-case we had at the firm I was working at, I built my first Visual Studio extension called AutoFindReplace.

Building that extension was great fun and I learnt a tremendous amount doing it that I decided to build more, which meant I learnt even more, and the whole thing snow balled. I had exposure to technologies that simply could not be afforded me in my day job.

Also, given that the I.T. industry has served me well for several decades (always paid the bills), and given the amount of freeware that others have voluntarily created to both my & the community's benefit, I wanted to give something back. So here we are - a number of free extensions for Visual Studio, which are either useful in themselves or just useful code examples to other extension developers.

Wins:

  • A great learning experience for me
  • An on-going learning new technologies
  • The feeling of giving something back to the community
  • An improved CV

Examples of widely used free and/or open source software I have (and still do) used: