Visual Studio 2010 - recommended extensions

Question

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

Answer 1

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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