Suggest good addins-tools for visual studio .net(all the versions-2005-2008 etc)

Question

Hi,

I have seen an addin (3rd party tool) in Visual Studio .Net 2003 to display dataset(Dataset Visualizer) while debugging mode.

Now this feature is available as a bultin in Visual studio 2005.

This is really a helpful addin for VS2003 where it made the debugging task easy.But i was unaware of such tools till i found someone using it.

I appreciate someone can suggest such good 3rd party addins or tools which makes the devolopers task easy?

Thanks in advance

SC

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Duplicate question: What are some good usability addins for Visual Studio 2008?

Answer 1

The LINQ to SQL Visualizer.

Answer 2

WSCF

A bit obsolete with WCF, but indispensable if you have to create old-style asmx webservices.

Answer 3

Web Deployment Projects

Not really a 3rd party (it's from Microsoft), but you have to install it separately:

VS2005

VS2008

Answer 4

Take a look at Visual Studio Gallery, it's the place to go for Visual Studio integration projects

Answer 5

Resharper by jetBrains is a powerful static analysis tool - it can help you refactor code, and quickly navigate it.

Answer 6

If you do anything with WPF Mole is great.

Also, the "XAML Power Toys" are pretty handy. (I'm a new user, so apparently I can only post 1 link, so you'll have to google for this one - sorry)