I saw this post by the Incremental Blogger explaining some ideas for integrating ink with Visual Studio.  After reading the post, I thought “Gotta have it!  Must have it!  Where’s the install?”.  After realizing that his post was just a teaser and he hadn’t released anything, I figured I would write it myself.  I decided to write it as a CodeRush plugin, since the CodeRush API is SO much sweeter than the VS Add-In API.  Here is a screen shot:

Right now it has the following features:

• Multiple colored ink
• Select and Resize ink strokes
• Saving and loading of ink.
• 3 different pen sizes
• Erasing ink

Since I don’t have a tablet, I haven’t been able to actually test it with a Tablet PC, so I’m looking for somebody to try it out and let me know how it goes.

Oh and to answer a question I got a lot when showing it to friends: Yes, the ink scrolls relative to the code.  You scroll down, it goes up, you scroll up, it goes down. It’s actually quite cool.  If there is a lot of interest, I’ll probably tidy it up and release the code.

I’m going to spend a little bit of time this week and finish testing it.  I’ll probably release it later this week or early next week.  When I do, please keep in mind that this is more of a “Concept Application” and less “Enterprise quality, mission critical application”.  So don’t blame me if it kicks your dog.  I tried to warn you.