I'm interested in putting together a web page with some
good tips on what one should use with Visual Studio 6.0.

Why?

For many different reasons, a lot of developers out there
still continue to use 6.0 and I imagine that this will
continue for a few more years. So, why not try to share
the tricks we've all gathered over the years. Some of this
might apply to the later VS.NET systems as well.

The page is at: http://www.redwoodsoft.com/~dru/tech/msvc.html

There are no ads or pop-ups etc.

What I want to capture is:

*I'm specifically focused on C++ development*

What addins/tools do you use?
Does XYZ really work?

I'm more of an ATL/WTL developer (no MFC).

Here are the things I'm looking into:

The problems with the STL have gotten me looking at
the different options there. STLPort looks good and
I'm looking at that since it gets around the DLL
requirement.

I'm starting to get some of the Boost libs into my
projects. (regex, smart ptrs, etc.) I use it at work,
and the smart ptrs work well. What stuff doesn't work
well with 6.0?

On a rainy day, I'm also going to look at the new free
Visual Studio C++ 2003 Toolkit. Can that be made to work inside
our old 6.0?

I have listed my useful info on the site. (What add-ins, etc.)

What tools do you use?

Is there a great blog/place on the net for 6.0?

<Note: I posted this once yesterday, but I'm cross posting today to
get more feedback, hopefully positive :-)  >