What Visual Studio add-ins do you use?

Question

I have the following installed:

• Imports Sorter (for VS 2005)
• GhostDoc
• Regex Find and Replace (.Net regex compatible find and replace, because VS has its own regex syntax)
• rockscroll
• Smart Paster
• Sonic File Finder
• Cool Commands

Answer 1

Definitely Smart Paster

Answer 2

• Refactor! Pro
• TestDriven.net
• DPack
• GhostDoc
• AnkhSVN (replaces VisualSVN for me now)

Answer 3

Visual Assist X

Answer 4

CodeRush with Refactor! Pro

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/Coding_Assistance/

Answer 5

Does F# class as a VS addin? :)

In all seriousness, ViEmu is the only addin I use.

Answer 6

I use:

• ReSharper
• VisualSVN
• TestDriven.net

If anyone knows of a good native C++ refactoring tool that doesn't bring the system to a standstill all the time, please post it. Refactor! Pro isn't bad by itself but I can't get it to play nicely with R#. I found Visual Assist too slow even when it's the only plug-in installed.

Answer 7

Most important ones for me are

• Resharper 4
• TestDriven.NET

Answer 8

For Visual Studio 2008 I'd say PowerCommands is a must have.

I also use VisualSVN for source control.

Answer 9

• ReSharper
• Ghost Doc
• PowerCommands

I am totally addicted to all three, but if I really had to choose the most important one, I'd go with ReSharper.

Answer 10

I agree with the R# comments and the agent smith plugin for that. It's not really a plugin, but VS without NUnit is like chocolate cake without icing!

Answer 11

Comment and string spell checker from component one http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/IntelliSpell/. It's very fast and free!

Answer 12

MZ-Tools

Answer 13

This question covers around 30 add-ins that people disussed.

Answer 14

Simple but useful string-> resource refactoring: http://resourcerefactoring.codeplex.com/

Answer 15

Currently I use Git-Extensions, and before, i had been using AnkhSvn

Answer 16

Metalscroll

An alternative for RockScroll. It fixes a few annoying issues such as region support.

Answer 17

See CodeHelper
http://www.bluemusa.com/codehelper/codehelper.htm