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External tools in Visual Studio are great "Add-Ons". There are so many usefull tools, you just need to know them. For example you can create .NET classes out of XML-Shemas(XSD) or add DLLs to the Global Assembley Cache (GAC) of a server. To configure an external tool you need to call Visual Studio 2010 or above. Press "Tools" and go to "external Tools...". A mask appears.

To convert a HTML file into a PDF file in C# is not as hard as it sounds. All you need is a usefull library, and there are many. For example you can use iTextSharp. This one is for free until version 4.1.6 and you can get it here .