Add-ins : Visual Studio Hacks

It is a shame that what has become such a standard features in most applications is notably missing in Visual Studio. I personally struggle with spelling and have in the past resorted to copying and pasting...

I love seeing more affordable add-ins that are a great value. SlickEdit recently announced a set of add-ins that are both priced at $49 and both provide a number of compelling features. In this article...

Classify is a Visual Studio add-in that contains a number of different features, mostly focused on VB.NET development, but some that can be used by C# developers as well.

CodeKeep is a simple code snippet management add-in that allows you to quickly submit and use snippets from the CodeKeep online repository.

SharpTools from Morrison Schwartz gives developers a framework for easily developing add-ins for Visual Studio .NET 2003.  SharpTools also comes with a number of very handy tools as part of the basic install package.

Oliver Sturm’s CR Electric Editing plugin, based on the DXCore plugin framework, brings Emacs functionality to Visual Studio.

The CR_Documentor plug-in allows you to view XML comments as rendered comments right inside of the IDE.

Easily maintain order in your directive blocks.

Roy Osherove has released a very handy set of Regular Expression Visualizers for Visual Studio 2005.

Add tons of useful commands to Visual Studio like collapsing all projects and opening a command prompt at the current location.