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.

So, the first question: is this the right group?

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:

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.

I'm starting to get some of the Boost libs into my
projects. (regex, smart ptrs, etc.)

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 tools do you use?