I love creating tools that simplify a developers life and can save time. My intent with the next few blog entries will be to publicly step through the process of designing, creating, and using tools that I have named the "Fast and Filthy Add Ins for Visual Studio." "Fast and Filthy" is a play on the term "Quick and Dirty." These add ins will be Visual Studio add ins that will give a developer a fast and simple way to create prototypes for customers/management. I think this also has the potential for use by managers and even clients (more on this later). Taking Advantage of the Hierarchical Classes, controls, and data tend to be hierarchical in nature. Classes have properties and methods (which have parameters and a return value ). Controls contain collections of controls. Data tends to be hierarchical to some degree - Databases contains tables which can be related to other tables, tables contain fields, etc.. And then of course there's XML: hierarch...