Yeah! Go VisualAssist! I love that tool. I particularly love their VA Outline pane - makes grokking a file *so* much quicker! (P.S. - I still don't get why people prefer 6 over 2005/2008 versions of the IDE ... I think they must have .NET/C# profiled install instead of a C++ one :^) )

I would also recommend Fogbugz if you are just tracking IT tickets. Our company just did the whole evaluation thing and decided to go with VisionProject ( www.visionproject.se[^] ) as it had the closest feature set/nice interface that we wanted. Another open source one to consider besides Mantis or Trac (bugzilla is ugly and horrible) is redmine - www.redmine.org[^] . This is shaping up very nicely and I'll be very interested to see what it looks like once it reaches version 1.0 . Cheers, JT.

Yay! Go Yahoo search results - I find them waaaay above google's when it comes to looking for local stuff (australia). As in , real stuff like 'where is that wine from?'. My rule - google for finding technical information, localised yahoo for finding real-world stuff / local companies websites.

Generics I assume you are talking about templates, not .NET That could be true, our code base does not use a lot of templates (especially not extended template stuff like partial specialisation ) due to the very wide-ranging compile environments it needs to work in. So would not have really tested Star's capability there.

For free it's hard to beat StarUML. http://www.staruml.com/[^] It's C++ reverse engineering I have to say is pretty darn good (which is something about it that interests me. Dunno know what you might be interested in). General UML functions are fine.

You can correct the Windows explorer freeze on network hiccup - you can tell it to darn well *do not * go checking the network shares all the time - some registry setting somewhere, sorry you'll have to google for the exact setting. A long time ago I did that and makes my life so much better!

If it's just for tunes, then Coolplayer is pretty good. http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/[^]