Visual Studio 2010 - recommended extensions

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What are your recommended extensions for Visual Studio 2010   Please indicate if its free or not And also its purpose   function too

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If you are a Vim aficionado     VsVim - free ViEmu - not free  also not yet released

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JScript Editor Extensions     Bundles the following extensions for   the Visual Studio 2010 JScript editor      Brace Matching      Adds support for automatically   highlighting the matching opening or   closing brace to the one currently at   the cursor  Supports matching   parenthesis      square brackets        and curly braces      Braces in   strings  comments and regular   expression literals are ignored       Outlining   Cold-folding      Adds support for automatically   creating outlining regions for JScript   blocks  Blocks are detected via   opening and closing curly braces    Braces in strings  comments and   regular expression literals are   ignored        Current Word Highlighting      Adds support for highlighting all   instances of the word currently at the   cursor        IntelliSense Doc-Comments  Support      Adds support for the  element in   JScript IntelliSense doc-comments to   allow display of new lines in   IntelliSense tooltips

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Mouse Zoom  Free   Zoom at the mouse s cursor instead of at the top of the visible document  Always scroll 25  no matter what zoom level is currently set   Ctrl   Mouse Wheel -  zoom in out at mouse cursor  Ctrl   Shift   Mouse Wheel -  zoom in out all the way  pausing at 100 percent   Ctrl   Middle Mouse Click -  zoom to 100 percent   Visual Studio Gallery Home  http   visualstudiogallery msdn microsoft com en-us 6de43ab2-e65c-40b3-9986-b0351c28ce53

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tangible T4 Editor plus modeling tools for VS2010 adds IntelliSense and Syntax Coloring to T4 Text Templates  Free

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NuGet  NuGet  formerly NuPack  is a free  open source developer focused package management system for the  NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a  NET application during development

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devColor  Free   Small tool which underlines hex colors in stylesheets with the correct color   I really like how it integrates into the editor

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DevExpress CodeRush Refactor  Pro  not free   249 99   It s way better than Resharper  which by the way always slowed down my VS to a crawl   it works with C  and VB NET  including refactoring  and the support and community is excellent  Worth the price tag  And yes  it does support 2010  in RC at the time of this writing

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Visual Assist X not free

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What about the HelpViewerKeywordIndex    helps  a bit  with what is as I see it 2010 s greatest flaw  the new help viewer

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VSFileNav -  Free  A Find File in Solution tool  cross between SonicFileFinder and Resharper   Lightweight  easy to use and fast  I got sick of the huge startup time with Sonic    Disclaimer   I wrote this tool

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Plugin to quickly go to any file in solution Sonic file finder  free  Fast switching between  h and  cpp file Macro available here  free    And that s it

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WoVS Quick Add Reference  The    Quick Add Reference    extension augments the smart tag that VS shows for unrecognized types giving you a chance to add the corresponding assembly reference for that type plus corresponding    using    clause if needed in a single shot

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Work Item Visualizer for TFS 2010  free

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HQLAddin - for NHibernate HQL editor

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VSCommands is simply one of the best FREE plugins ot there   visual studio gallery link

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Free    VsCommandBudy - Extend VS with external commands where really need them  Free   PowerCommands - useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2010 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE  DevExpress CodeRush Xpress - Coding assistance  Intellisense navigation etc  AnkhSVN - Subversion Support for Visual Studio   Ghost Doc - Simplify your XML Comments   Visual Studio Color Theme Editor - make your VS2010 look pretty with themes  VsVim - VIM emulation layer for Visual Studio  DPack -  FREE collection of Microsoft Visual Studio tools  VSFileNav - fast searcher with wildcards   camel case searches  Sonic file finder - fast and convenient search  AllMargins  tangible T4 Editor plus modeling tools for VS2010 adds IntelliSense and Syntax Coloring to T4 Text Templates Word Wrap with Auto-Indent  Indentation Matcher Extension  Structure Adornment   BlockTagger BlockTaggerImpl  SettingsStore SettingsStoreImpl   Source Outliner - not available on this link  Triple Click - Makes triple click select an entire line  ItalicComments  Go To Definition - Make ctrl click perform a  Go To Definition  on the identifier under the cursor  Spell Checker - not available on this link  Remove and Sort Using - Adds a context menu entry to Solution Explorer that sorts and removes using statements on every file in the solution  project  or on the individual file  Format Document - Adds a context menu entry to Solution Explorer and the code window that executes the Edit-Advance-Format Document command on every file in the solution  project  or current code window  Open Folder in Windows Explorer - Extends the Open Folder in Windows Explorer context menu option to the code editor and to all files in solution explorer  Find Results Highlighter - Highlights the search text in the find results windows  Regular Expressions Margin - A margin which exposes  Net Regular Expressions search and replace capabilities on a given code window   VSCommands - not available on this link  HelpViewerKeywordIndex - Visual Studio Extension for the Microsoft Help Viewer StyleCop - StyleCop analyzes C  source code to enforce a set of best practice style and consistency rules  Extension Analyzer - Extension Analyzer helps debug issues with VSIX Components  Visual Studio Packages  PkgDef Files and MEF Components   CodeCompare - Code Compare is an advanced file and folder comparison tool  This programming languages oriented diff tool can be used as a Visual Studio add-in and as a standalone application  Team Founder Server Power Tools - not available on this link VS10x Selection Popup - not available on this link Color Picker Completion - not available on this link Numbered Bookmarks - Numbered Bookmarks allows users to create and recall bookmarks by using numbers  User can create 10 bookmarks  starting from 0 to 9   Mouse Zoom - Mouse zoom at the mouse s cursor instead of at the top of the visible document  See VS options    Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools - A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional  and above  which improves developer productivity  JSEnhancements - provides outlining and matching braces highlighting features for Visual Studio JavaScript editor  provides fantastic  region collapsing in JS and CSS files  making long files much easier to handle  Code Contracts Editor Extensions - Displays Code Contracts  when editing C   in code  Intellisense  and in metadata files   WoVS Quick Add Reference - Add missing assembly references right from the code editor JScript Editor Extensions -  Align By T4 Editor Quick Open File for Visual Studio 2010 - quick opening any solution file CleanProject - Cleans Visual Studio Solutions PhatStudio - fast file navigation and quickly opening files VsVim - Vim style keyboard shorcuts Chutzpah - Open source JavaScript test runner I Hate  Regions - makes expanded regions less disturbing by making the font smaller    Not Free    Resharper Visual Assist X JustCode ViEmu CodeRush with Refactor  Pro  VisualSVN VS10x Code Map - displays a graphical nested representation of the current editor window code VS10x Editor View Enhancer

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World of VS Default Browser Switcher for easily switching browser in web projects

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This is my list of extensions   The list on this is pretty comprehensive  so I spent sometime to find the extensions that I need  Here is the snapshot  Hope it will help someone    I tried installing Codemaid  and it appeared to be a nifty addon  but my Visual Studio response became very slow  Felt like some threads were doing some work all the time when Codemaid was on  So uninstalling for now

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RockScroll  free  - Double-click on a word symbol highlights all occurrences of that word symbol  Also replaces the scroll bar with a preview of your code  with edit spots and  all occurences  lines highlighted   Example of use  want to see whether a variable is used anywhere else in current source file  Double-click variable  look at scroll bar for any red highlights

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VisualHG is a Mercurial Source control plugin that drives TortoiseHG from VS  I m a big fan of Mercurial  amp  DVCS  VisualHG makes it nice n integrated  Git fans - I m not asking for a flame war  Hg is just my brand

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I can t live without DPack - especially when working on large projects  makes navigating between files and members much easier  And it s free   Favorite shortucts   Alt U   file browser  filters files as you type Alt G   code browser  filters all members as you type Alt M   code browser  filters methods in the current file as you type       and so on  Much easier for me then finding my way around Project Explorer

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Visual Studio Color Theme Editor  free   I can t code unless my VS2010 has a StackOverflow-like theme

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Ghost Doc  Free   It takes a while to configure it properly  but it can be quite useful

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AtomineerUtils Pro  not free   9 99 USD  is  in my opinion  better than Ghost Doc  But  just like Ghost Doc or any automatic documentation generator  the generated documentation is meant to be edited to be of any real value

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CodeMaid seems to be pretty useful - it AutoFormats on save which saves a lot of time between developers and code-diffs   Are there other tools that can use the VS AutoFormat document

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PowerCommands  free

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DevExpress CodeRush Xpress  free

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From my blog post  all free     Word Wrap with Auto-Indent  Indentation Matcher Extension  Structure Adornment   This also installs the following extensions     BlockTagger BlockTaggerImpl  SettingsStore SettingsStoreImpl    Source Outliner Triple Click  ItalicComments Go To Definition  Spell Checker Remove and Sort Using Format Document Open Folder in Windows Explorer Find Results Highlighter Regular Expressions Margin VSCommands HelpViewerKeywordIndex  StyleCop Visual Studio Color Theme Editor PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010 Extension Analyzer  CodeCompare Team Founder Server Power Tools   VS10x Selection Popup  Color Picker Completion Numbered Bookmarks

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Code Contracts Editor Extensions  a free extension which provides information about inherited contracts for the method you re currently working on  and a list of contracts for any methods that you re calling  Unfortunately  the latter feature conflicts with Resharper  but the former still works fine

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Vingy  Free   Vingy 1 0 is simple  but effective add in for Visual Studio 2010 so that you can search the web in a non intrusive way  and can filter results based on sources   Vingy http   lh4 ggpht com   Mw4iY-4nuY TKic0LcfKgI AAAAAAAAA7s OR82RFQFSU8 s1600-h image 5B14 5D png  You can bring up Vingy either by clicking View- Other Windows      Vingy Search Window from the Visual Studio IDE  or just by high lighting some text in the document and then clicking Tools      Search Selected Text  Ctrl   1    Searching with Vingy is pretty straight forward  You can initiate a Search in two ways    By typing the text in the Vingy search box and pressing    Enter    or by clicking the    Go    button By highlighting some text in the editor when you type in Visual Studio  and then pressing Ctrl   1

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Search Work Items for TFS 2010  free

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CleanProject - Cleans Visual Studio Solutions     How many times have you wanted to send a project to a friend or upload   it to a web site like MSDN Code Gallery only to find that your zip   file has lots of stuff that you don t need to send in it making the   file larger than it needs to be       bin folder obj folder TestResults folder Resharper folders And then if   you forget about removing Source Control bindings whoever gets your   project will be prompted about that   As someone who does this process   a great deal I decided to share with you my code for cleaning a   project

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VisualSVN  not-free   I personally prefer this over AnkhSVN since its not an SCC provider and doesn t add extra files to my repository

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VS10x Code Map That is very cool  Easy jumping to property  method  And easy expand collapse region and more

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Align by - Obviously I m bias since I wrote it but it s the extension I use more than any other

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CppLister is free tool for C   developers  It just collects information about currently open file from intellisense database and displays various information for easy navigation

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ReSharper   not-free

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AnkhSVN  free   Even if you use other SVN shells outside VS  like TortoiseSVN   I recommend to install this Source Control Provider to automatically keep track of file renames  deletions and the like

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Quick Open File for Visual Studio 2010 - free  Simulates the feature known to Eclipse users as Open Resource  This plugin gives Visual Studio equivalently quick method for opening any solution file   VS10x Editor View Enhancer - free beta  Type and member definitions emphasizing  end-of-block details  clickable hotspots  C  and VB documents

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