I currently use Resharper and have for a few years now. I know there are a ton of other useful addins out there but i never seem to have the time to sort through them to see which is worthy of using. So i was hoping some of you would be able to help me do some sorting. ...
Hi .Net developers out there! Need your opinion here! I am now using Visual Assist X, a decent piece of software, indeed. But the .Net bloggers seem to prefer Resharper more. I might want to consider a switch over, but before that I want your guys opinion first. ...
What tools are out there that compete with this product? CodeKana I know ReSharper has improved syntax highlighting. Is it comparable to this? ...
I'm currently evaluating CodeRush and one thing that I liked most when reading the featurelist was the "Export type to new file" or similar functionality. Now that CodeRush runs within my IDE, I cannot find this functionality. Is there a plug-in required for it or am I just missing something? ...
I am looking for an addin that will allow me to click a button on the VS toolbar and the following actions should happen. On the highlighted project/folder/item from either Source Control Explorer or Solution Explorer, do a 'Get Specific Version' Click those 2 checkboxes, hit the 'Get' button on that dialog As I find myself doing t...
I would like to add a custom menu item when you right-click a certain file extension in Visual Studio. There seem to be some helper open source projects to accomplish this, but I'd like to ask if anyone has ever used them, and how easy were they - and can you help me and provide a starting point? One I've researched is: http://www.code...
The offending command that msi executes is: .\devenv.com /command "View.Toolbox" /setup This fails with Date execution prevention error. devenv.exe log contains a bunch of errors like this: <entry> <record>120</record> <time>2008/10/21 12:32:01.277</time> <type>Warning</type> <source>Microsoft Visual Studio Appid S...
I downloaded the free CodeRush Xpress version to try it. Is there a way to change the colors it uses for it's highlighting and line drawing? ie the matching braces. I have a dark color scheme and my monitor I have VS on must suck because I can't see the lines. Yet on the LCD I can. Is there a way to change the colors? ...
I wrote a simple add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that opens a dockable window pane. You can download the source and a binary installer by clicking here. The nature of the add-in means that it is ideally going to stay docked next to where you edit your source. But sometimes, on some installs, it won't stay docked. You run VS, you dock my...
Hello, I am looking for a Visual Studio add-in that would analyze the text around the cursor position and navigate to the corresponding class definition. For example I have this XML file that is currently open: <object id="abc" type="MyProject.Foo.Bar, MyProject"/> If I put the cursor somewhere between the double quotes on the type ...
I wanted to know what the public opinion is about Resharper vs Devxpress CodeRush vs Visual AssitX. some of my co-workers are CodeRush fans.. I like Resharper...would be great if someone could finish the debate for us. ...
What add-ins do you wish were available for Visual Studio 2008? Describe it here, and maybe it already exists. Or perhaps, it will soon! ...
Our solution has a lot of todo comments, but unfortunately it seems the only way to sort them is by file. Sorting by project would give me a much better overview of what I'm actually responsible for. Just wondering if there's any way to do this or any add-ins that provide better functionality. ...
We have created a VSTO addin for Outlook Meetings. As part of this we trap on the SendEvent of the message on the FormRegionShowing event: _apptEvents.Send += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ItemEvents_SendEventHandler(_apptEvents_Send); The method _apptEvents_Send then tests on a couple of properties and exits where appropriate...
I'm building a simple VS2008 add-in. What is the best practice for storing custom run-time settings? Where do you store the app.config and how do you access it from the add-in? ...
There seems to be no built-in support for case preserving find/replace in VisualStudio (see also a respective feature request). What I mean is: searching for 'BadJob' and replacing with 'GoodJob' would do the following replacements 'badjob' -> 'goodjob' 'BadJob' -> 'GoodJob' 'badJob' -> 'goodJob' 'BADJOB' -> 'GOODJOB' So I am l...
There are plenty of different Add-Ins for Visual Studio, see Visual Studio Gallery . Please share your experiences and favorites. As motivation, here are some of my favorites: Versioning Controlled Build [F/O] - very handy extension for automatic build numbering, SlickEdit Gadgets [F] - useful editor gadget, build-in file explorer, .....
i'm hoping to find some add-ons for Visual Studio to address some specific usability issues. Is there a Visual Studio addons gallery that contains a huge dumping ground of addons that every person, company, yahoo and hick have created? Kind of like Vista Sidebar Gadget gallery, but for addons. Kind of like CodePlex, but for addons. Is...
I have Visual Studio 2008 Express SP1 installed on my machine. I tried to install PowerCommands today, but it said that Visual Studio is not installed. Is there something I can do to get it to install? ...
We currently have "gacutil /i $(TargetPath)" as an external tool in visual studio and it works fine for gac'n a single project. I want to be able to select multiple projects and gac them so I put together a batch script to test. set randomfile=%random% echo %1 %2 %3 > %randomfile% gacutil.exe /f /il %randomfile% When I test it from...