Share some very useful Visual Studio extensions

Extension Manager

Visual Studio 2010 adds the extended manager feature to add, remove, enable, and disable Visual Studio extensions. We can install extensions from the Visual Studio Gallery (Visual Studio Library) website. These extensions are generally in the vsix package format, including project templates, item templates, toolbox items, managed extension frameworks (MEF) components and vspackage. Install it in the "Visual Studio Installation Folder \ common7 \ ide \ extensions \ company \ product \ version \" folder.

In this article, I will share some amazing extensions I have been using.

Visual Studio 2010 pro Power Tools

This extension tool Scott hanselman (The Best Visual Studio 2010 productivity power tools, power commands and extensions) and scottgu (Visual Studio 2010 productivity power tool extensions) both of them have been recommended in their blogs. After both of them, I would like to share some of them here.

Visual Studio 2010 pro power tools provides the following outstanding features:

Document tab Enhancement

You can set it on the Options> environment configuration document tab in the tool menu:

• Tab provides three UI Display Methods: scrollable, vertical, and pained.
• Provides the least recently used (LRU) algorithm to remove tabs and display fixed tabs in specific rows/columns.
• You can sort tabs by project or in alphabetical order.
• You can configure the color of the tab UI based on its project or regular expression. If the current option file is being modified, the tab UI also provides a style.

For more information about document tab enhancement, see document well 2010 plus.

Searchable add reference dialog box

Faster and easier to find reference for your project. As in the past, right-click the references node in Solution Explorer and select the Add reference command to view the update add reference dialog box.

This new reference dialog box shows the complete assembly name. The check mark shows the Assembly that has been referenced, and the details of the selected DLL are displayed on the sidebar. Since it caches the Assembly List, opening this dialog box later will be very fast. There is also a quick search feature. We can say that we get the Add reference dialog box that meets everyone's expectations.

Highlight the current row

Highlight the current mouse line. You can also use the font and color options "current line (Extended Part)" in the tool to change the default color settings.

Go to definition

Press Ctrl + Click to perform go to definition. However, VS has provided the F12 shortcut key go to definition for a long time, but I don't think Ctrl + Click is useful.

Column Guide

Place the cursor in the corresponding column and select Add guide from the context menu. This allows us to provide a reference line.

Delete is also the same operation:

Other enhancements include:

• Fixed mixed tabs: prompted developers to correct code files with mixed tabs and spaces
• HTML replication: Copies code in HTML format. This extension provides support for the HTML format of the editor code. When writing a blog, we can directly copy the code segment in. However, I don't think it is very good, because there are a lot of spaces in HTML.
• Alignment: Code on both sides of Alignment Based on = signs
• Command to move up/down: Alt + up and ALT + down move the selected code line or edit the up/down current line.

Powercommands for Visual Studio 2010

This extension provides a variety of extension commands, such as copying and pasting project references, opening the folder where the file is located, opening the command prompt, shrinking the project, right-clicking the directory where the file is located, edit project files and clear the latest files and project list. For details, refer to here. You can find powercommands enable or disable In the Options dialog box of the tool menu.

Visual Studio color Theme Editor

This extension allows you to edit the entire Color Style of Visual Studio 2010. By default, it provides 8 styles. You can also customize the color style. For details, refer to here.

Image insertion

This extension is very cool. We can insert images directly in our code. We can visually display the logic of this Code with images. Next time, we can see the image at a glance.

Now, let's talk about other extensions here.

I hope this article will help you.

Extension Manager

Visual Studio 2010 adds the extended manager feature to add, remove, enable, and disable Visual Studio extensions. We can install extensions from the Visual Studio Gallery (Visual Studio Library) website. These extensions are generally in the vsix package format, including project templates, item templates, toolbox items, managed extension frameworks (MEF) components and vspackage. Install it in the "Visual Studio Installation Folder \ common7 \ ide \ extensions \ company \ product \ version \" folder.

In this article, I will share some amazing extensions I have been using.

Visual Studio 2010 pro Power Tools

This extension tool Scott hanselman (The Best Visual Studio 2010 productivity power tools, power commands and extensions) and scottgu (Visual Studio 2010 productivity power tool extensions) both of them have been recommended in their blogs. After both of them, I would like to share some of them here.

Visual Studio 2010 pro power tools provides the following outstanding features:

Document tab Enhancement

You can set it on the Options> environment configuration document tab in the tool menu:

• Tab provides three UI Display Methods: scrollable, vertical, and pained.
• Provides the least recently used (LRU) algorithm to remove tabs and display fixed tabs in specific rows/columns.
• You can sort tabs by project or in alphabetical order.
• You can configure the color of the tab UI based on its project or regular expression. If the current option file is being modified, the tab UI also provides a style.

For more information about document tab enhancement, see document well 2010 plus.

Searchable add reference dialog box

Faster and easier to find reference for your project. As in the past, right-click the references node in Solution Explorer and select the Add reference command to view the update add reference dialog box.

This new reference dialog box shows the complete assembly name. The check mark shows the Assembly that has been referenced, and the details of the selected DLL are displayed on the sidebar. Since it caches the Assembly List, opening this dialog box later will be very fast. There is also a quick search feature. We can say that we get the Add reference dialog box that meets everyone's expectations.

Highlight the current row

Highlight the current mouse line. You can also use the font and color options "current line (Extended Part)" in the tool to change the default color settings.

Go to definition

Press Ctrl + Click to perform go to definition. However, VS has provided the F12 shortcut key go to definition for a long time, but I don't think Ctrl + Click is useful.

Column Guide

Place the cursor in the corresponding column and select Add guide from the context menu. This allows us to provide a reference line.

Delete is also the same operation:

Other enhancements include:

• Fixed mixed tabs: prompted developers to correct code files with mixed tabs and spaces
• HTML replication: Copies code in HTML format. This extension provides support for the HTML format of the editor code. When writing a blog, we can directly copy the code segment in. However, I don't think it is very good, because there are a lot of spaces in HTML.
• Alignment: Code on both sides of Alignment Based on = signs
• Command to move up/down: Alt + up and ALT + down move the selected code line or edit the up/down current line.

Powercommands for Visual Studio 2010

This extension provides a variety of extension commands, such as copying and pasting project references, opening the folder where the file is located, opening the command prompt, shrinking the project, right-clicking the directory where the file is located, edit project files and clear the latest files and project list. For details, refer to here. You can find powercommands enable or disable In the Options dialog box of the tool menu.

Visual Studio color Theme Editor

This extension allows you to edit the entire Color Style of Visual Studio 2010. By default, it provides 8 styles. You can also customize the color style. For details, refer to here.

Image insertion

This extension is very cool. We can insert images directly in our code. We can visually display the logic of this Code with images. Next time, we can see the image at a glance.

Now, let's talk about other extensions here.

I hope this article will help you.