One of the great things in SharePoint 2010 is its close integration with Visual Studio 2010. Today I created my working copy of Server Explorer extension for Visual Studio 2010 and think you would love to know how quick and easy it is. In short, I create an extension that will enumerate all of the webparts in the webpart gallery under your site and let you right click on it to copy webpart XML to clipboard like this:
Extending Visual Studio 2010 with custom tools for SharePoint 2010 from Yaroslav Pentsarskyy on Vimeo.
I though you might like to see a short 10 min video on how to do that. In my next post I will provide the source code. Enjoy!