I have been working on an object management development tool on and off for about a year. I call it Object manager. I have been using it productively in my work for the last 8 months and have been enhancing it as I go. I would like to offer it to everyone as a group project. Currently the object IDs are in the 87500 range, so only developer licenses could have access. Maybe this can be changed soon with some add-on range objects.
The project touches these major areas so far:
Object History with restoration
Projects with Objects
CodeSafe - an automatic object backup feature
Text Compare - using a modified version of the compare tool
Enhance Object Import/Export using a new file format .vso (very silly object)
Multi user Object Locks
Upgrades
Object Date/Time Compare
It is a very useful tool as it is, but I think if we all used our heads and skills together it could be fanta stic and increase everyone's productivity.
I would be glad to post and/or email the objects to anyone who is interested.
If anyone is interested in working on this project, please email me and we can get this organized and going.