What are in your opinion the "must have" Visual Studio 2010 extensions?
OData Protocol Visualizer is fine
Solid Softfare Xplorer isn't free, but looks very nice
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Resharper 5.0 is the one I must have. Some others are nice to have as well.
Brendan Enrick
2010-04-15 14:33:43
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Matt's Visual Studio Color Theme Editor is proving to be really popular (over 10,000 downloads as of 4/18/10).
I've written a couple that are popular; Go To Definition is one of the most popular. If you do a search for my name ("Noah Richards"), you'll find some of the others (triple click to select whole lines, italicize comments, spell checking for strings and comments, and about 7 others).
There's at least one other spell check extension on the gallery, the HTML Spell Checker. It's more mature than the one I wrote but requires Office to work.
Noah Richards
2010-04-19 00:52:59
+1 For Go To Definition and Theme Editor
moi_meme
2010-06-17 17:57:09
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Mine are
- PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010 offer so much...
- Triple Click - Select line with Triple Click
- StructureAdornment - Show scope of code
- Go To Definition And Them Editor - As mentioned by Noah
moi_meme
2010-06-17 18:03:52
This adds a new Add References dialog that save an insane amount of time.
Jonathan Allen
2010-07-12 18:15:14
It will really be great the day they decide to stop overwriting all the configuration at each updates.
VirtualBlackFox
2010-10-21 12:10:48
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I have found the snippets to be useful for various tasks along the way, and so this is a good way to smooth out the maintenance of such snippets:
Description Adapted from the website:
- A Snippet editor integrated inside of the IDE.
- Opening any .snippet file
- Uses the native Visual Studio code editor
- Mark replacements with a convenient right click menu.
- Snippet properties inside the Visual Studio properties window.
- A Snippet Explorer tool
- A right Click "Export as Snippet" menu option added to C#, VB and XML code editor to send highlighted code directly to the Snippet Editor
ee
2010-07-12 17:53:22
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Update As pointed out below by Jonathan Allen, this functionality already exists in Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools. Adding this extension, then, would be redundant if you already have that.
There are many ways to solve the posting of formatted code, but I liked the integrated nature of this extension and how you can tweak the resulting HTML:
Description From Linked Page:
Code4Blog is a Visual Studio 2010 extension that allows to convert any code supported by Visual Studio IDE to HTML format with the same structure and colors. Main purpose of this extension is to prepare a code snippet to be published in rich documents, for example in blog posts, Microsoft Word documents or Help files. Some additional styling could be applied: max width and height of the code block, custom background (per code line), font family and font size, line numbering and others.
ee
2010-07-12 17:55:50
Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools does it in a better way. When you use the normal copy command it stores the code as both HTML and plain text in the copy buffer. Then when you hit paste the target application decides which it prefers.
Jonathan Allen
2010-07-12 18:10:06
Thanks Jonathan, I had missed that in the features, but it does work just as one would expect. Documentation also says that customization settings are pending...which would be great.
ee
2010-07-12 18:28:56
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I love the Win7 Taskbar Extension, especiall when working with multiple solutions.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0c92dd87-50ac-489e-882b-b99de7624502
Jonathan Allen
2010-07-12 17:58:15
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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is a must have for WPF developers.
Jonathan Allen
2010-07-12 17:58:39
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Refactor is a must-have for me. CodeRush is also nice, though one of these years I need to seriously compare it to Resharper. I think most people stick with whichever they first use, as they both take a lot of time to learn.
Jonathan Allen
2010-07-12 18:11:53
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Can I put a plug in for my own extension? :)
PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension - Add PowerShell support to VS2010
Adam Driscoll
2010-07-26 20:55:02
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I'm using Visual Nunit which is rather nice if you don't have the money to stump up for something like ReSharper. It's only feature (as far as I'm aware) is to allow running nunit tests from within the IDE, which is nice becuase it means you don't have to revert to Nunit GUI every time you want to run some of your unit tests. Also seems pretty stable as of version 1.1.7.
A. Murray
2010-10-21 13:52:19