16 Good Visual Studio plug-ins

Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) is a development tool suite product of Microsoft. VS is a basic and complete set of development tools. It includes most of the tools required throughout the software lifecycle, such as UML tools, code control tools, and integrated development environment. The target Code is applicable to all platforms supported by Microsoft, including Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE,. NET Framework,. NET Compact framework, and Microsoft Silverlight. (From Wikipedia)

Visual assist X is an efficient plug-in that many programmers should be familiar. In addition, Visual Studio has many plug-ins to help developers/programmers develop their work. This article collects 16 other good plug-ins.

 

0. devcolor extensions

A widget also includes a color selector.

1. snippet Editor

Snippet designer is an open-source plug-in that helps vs provide richer and more efficient coding experiences.

2. Productivity power

The productivity power tools, your extension state (disabled or enabled) will be retained when you install a new version of the toolsAs long as Visual Studio is running during the installation.

3. Image optimize

Add a right-click menu to any folder and image in Solution Explorer to optimize PNG, GIF, and JPEG files in the folder. Optimization does not affect image quality. The optimization process uses proven algorithms to remove EXIF information and other data.

4. vs command 10 Extension

VS commands provides code navigation and generation improvements which will make your everyday coding tasks blazing fast and, together with tens of essential ide enhancements, it will take your productivity to another level.

5. Web Essentials

The live web preview tool window loads your website/project in a browser and will update every time you save or build. you can turn on live editing for CSS which lets you see your CSS changes on your actual website as you type each keystroke.

6. js enhancements

This extension provides outlining and matching braces highlighting features for Visual Studio JavaScript and CSS editor. Works both in JS/CSS files and HTML Script/style blocks.

7. numbered bookmarks

Numbered bookmarks allows users to create and recall bookmarks by using numbers. user can create 10 bookmarks (starting from 0 to 9 ). user can add or navigate to the specified bookmark by using the same custom cut key. the tool adds a bookmark margin to Visual Studio Editor, next to scrollbar.

8. foxcop Integrator

Fxcop integrator allows to integrate stand-alone fxcop and code metrics poewrtool into vs2010. you can analyze your source code on vs2010 pro.

9. Code compare

Code compare is a powerful file and folder comparison tool that demonstrates new level of code comparison. Advanced comparison approaches, which consider the amount of different programming versions, make a significant advantage in code comparing.

10. Open folder in new Windows Explorer

Extend the "Open folder in Windows Explorer" context menu option to the Code Editor and to all files in Solution Explorer.

11. Regular expresion margin

A margin which exposes. net regular expressions search and replace capabilities on a given code window. toggle the margin by Alt + R. navigate to next search by Alt + N. navigate to previous earch by Alt + P. escape key hides the margin and set focus back to the code window. even if the margin is den, as long as there is search in the find what Textbox, it will continually do a search on text updates.

12. Visual Studio color theme

Allows users to customize the color palette used for menus, toolbars, tabs, title bars, and other environment colors.

13. Spell checker

This extension provides spell checking support for various "Natural Language" portions of files. This supported des:

Plain text files (the entire file is spell checked)
Source code (comments and strings are spell checked)
Html/ASP (things that aren't HTML tags are spell checked)

14. Triple click

Makes Triple click Select an entire line.

15. Go to definition

Make Ctrl + Click perform a "Go to definition" on the identifier under the cursor. Also, when the ctrl key is held down, highlight identifiers that look like they have definitions to navigate.

16. vsvim

I once recommended this plug-in for @ programmers: vsvim, simulating Vim in Visual Studio 2010.

 

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16 Good Visual Studio plug-ins