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Visual Studio Add-ins: [color=red]API to .NET Mapping Maps common
Win32API functions to their .NET CLR equivalents; and, allows the
developer to search either MSDN online or Google for more information on
either the Win32 function or its .NET counterpart.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Add Copyright Notice Allows
the developer to specify a custom header that can be added to each code
file in the current VS.NET project. Requires SharpTools.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Assemblur A
simple and reliable obfuscator for the .NET platform. Assemblur provides
comprehensive analysis of type and method hierarchies and ensures that
the code will not be accidentally broken or behave differently after
obfuscation. Simplified, intuitive user interface and seamless Visual
Studio integration make it easy to make obfuscation a transparent part
of the Visual Studio build process.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: BE.pinvoke BE.pinvoke
is the PINVOKE.NET Add-In for Visual Studio 2005. The UI looks very
similar to original PINVOKE.NET Addin for Visual Studio 2003 (1.0), but
it is totally new designed and it takes advantage from the new features
of the .NET Framework 2.0. Have fun inserting PInvoke signatures into
your Visual Studio Project.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Bordecal.ImportsSorter Visual
Studio 2005 introduces new functionality for automatic generation of
imports and using directives when types cannot be resolved. This is a
great little addition to the coding UI, but it can pose a bit of a
problem for the anal-retentive nit-pickers amongst us since the new
directives simply get added to the end of the imports/using directive
block. Of course, this causes no problem whatsoever for the compiler,
but it's not particularly pretty either. This add-in automates the
sorting into this order: System namespace and descendants, Microsoft
namespace and descendants, third party namespaces, own namespaces.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: CR ClassCleaner CR_ClassCleaner is a DXCore plug-in that adds functionality to Visual Studio to help organize and clean classes.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Change Case Toggles the case of selected text. It
explains both options of accessing the functionality from the Tools
menu or the context menu.
Visual Studio Add-ins: ClipBoard Manager Prevents whitespace from being
copied to the clipboard. More importantly, it manages your clipboard
history, so you can go back and recover data you copied onto the
clipboard hours ago. Additionally, you can query your history simply by
entering text in the "Search" field. This will filter your history down
to items that match. Once you've found your data, double-click and it
will be moved onto the clipboard.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Code Project Browser This
Visual Studio add-in lets you browse Code Project directly in Visual
Studio 2005. When you click on a link that would normally download a zip
file, it asks you instead if you'd like to open the sample up using the
Code Project Browser. If you say yes, the add-in will download the
file, unzip it to a base "My documents\My Code Project Samples"
directory, then load it directly. It also provides a sidebar where you
can view, reload and delete all of the projects you've downloaded.
Finally, it allows you to keep Code Project favorites, just like any
respectable web browser would.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Code Templates For
code template completion from keyword. If you've used SharpDevelop,
Homesite, or Cold Fusion Studio, it works exactly like in those
products.
Visual Studio Add-ins: CodeKeep Manages your
CodeKeep code snippets and search for other code snippets without ever
having to leave Visual Studio. Works with all versions of Visual Studio
2005, including the Visual Studio Team System editions. Supports
dockable tool windows for "My Snippets", "Browse Snippets", and "Search
Snippets". Supports drag-and-drop functionality for "My Snippets",
"Browse Snippets", and "Search Snippets". In either of those tool
windows, you can drag a snippet from the datagrid onto the IDE text
editor and the code for that snippet will get copied into your document
at the cursor location. In fact, you can drag-and-drop snippets onto
anything that supports OLE drag-and-drop automation, such as Word,
Excel, etc. When using "Add to CodeKeep", automatically recognizes the
language you're using (C#, VB.NET, and J# only).
Visual Studio Add-ins: CodePsy A code
writer based on the analyzed coding context. The current implementation
is an add-in for C# in Visual Studio .NET. It features the Statement
Writer, which allows the programmer to write the code of conditional and
iteration statements by simply pressing the Tab key next to the related
keyword. It then dynamically positions the caret through completion
steps by pressing Tab again. The Statement Writer can even add the
logical following statement and as it can add an optional block in the
current one.
Visual Studio Add-ins: CodeRush Helps
create sophisticated code blocks in seconds and extend code templates
instantly. CodeRush will complete identifiers as you type and expand or
contract selections logically. With CodeRush, you will be able to
instantly place selected code inside Try/Catch blocks, Regions and your
own custom wrappers with ease. You can even reverse the logic of
selected code and revisit important points within your code instantly
(and effortlessly swap between locations).
Visual Studio Add-ins: CodeSMART G2
CodeSMART for Visual Studio .NET adds many new features to Visual Studio
including: general itegration notes, Explorer tools, code location
tools, code checking tools, coding efficiency tools, code building and
generating tools, code formatting and documenting tools, designer helper
tools, AutoSave, AutoBackup code statistics, file differences, snippets
manager, and iterative code.
Visual Studio Add-ins: CodeShare For
sharing code snippets in an enterprise. It provides menu options within
the IDE to contribute and find code snippets from a central repository.
Visual Studio Add-ins: CodeSmith A
template-based code generator that can produce code for any text-based
language. Whether your target language is C#, Visual Basic .NET, T-SQL,
Java or even FORTRAN, CodeSmith can help you produce higher-quality,
more consistent code in less time than writing code by hand. CodeSmith's
familiar ASP.NET-based template syntax means that you can be writing
your first templates within minutes of installing the package. The
advanced CodeSmith Studio integrated development environment (IDE) helps
you create and test new templates in a rapid development setting.
CodeSmith Explorer is available as an addin within Visual Studio.
CodeSmith can be used as a custom tool to generate code within Visual
Studio.
Visual Studio Add-ins: CodeXchange Provides integrated access to an online repository of .NET code snippets.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Collection Builder
Allows the developer to create a strongly-typed collection from any
class in the current Visual Studio project. Requires SharpTools.
Visual Studio Add-ins: CommentMakerPro A
template-based comment generation tool designed to work in Visual C++
under Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005. It creates customizable function
header that you can adjust to most companies' documentation
requirements.
Visual Studio Add-ins: CoolCommands Set of commands and Reference Manager for Visual Studio 2005.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Copy Folder to Project Allows
you to browse for any folder, and copy that folder and all of it's
files to your project's folder, and automatically include the folder and
it's contents into your project.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: DB Connection Visualizer This
is a debugger visualizer add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. It
gives you a quick way to run a SQL statement against a database
connection and view the results in a grid while debugging your code.
Visual Studio Add-ins: DevForce Express A
free developer productivity solution for .NET that is fully integrated
with Microsoft Visual Studio for developing data-intensive client/server
applications. DevForce Express is a "must have" for .NET development.
It will improve your productivity and increase application quality from
development to deployment. This ensures that you meet the needs of your
users, reduce overall costs, and accelerate time-to-market. DevForce
Express includes a core RAD framework, an integrated ORM, advanced UI
DataBinding, MVC architecture, and one-click deployment and versioning.
It includes all product documentation including "Quickstart" tutorials
and demos. Applications built with DevForce Express may be developed,
deployed, and even resold royalty-free. More powerful commercial
versions include DevForce Professional and DevForce Enterprise.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Dexter Extends
and enhances the functionality of several Microsoft development tools by
providing automatic code completion, including Visual C++, Visual
Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Visual InterDev, Visual J++,
Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003, and Visual Studio .NET for
Applications.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: EiffelEnvision
Enables use of the powerful features of the Eiffel language within
Visual Studio .NET, including Design by ContractTM (a means for
producing bugfree software, native only to Eiffel), multiple
inheritance, generics, and many others.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Explorer Opens the folder of a solution to do some tasks with Windows Explorer like copy, rename files, etc.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: GhostDoc A free
add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation
comments. Either by using existing documentation inherited from base
classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from name and
type of e.g. methods, properties or parameters.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Google search Allows
the developer to search Google from Visual Studio. Searches Google for
the text that is selected in the current source code document window.
Requires SharpTools.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: HTML addin Generator
for Windows Forms This is a product that can help the basic VS2005
developer to improve his application in a fast way by adding a basic
HTML HELP project, that can be customized further. For each form, it
generates an image map that you can click on each container control on
the form and be translated to the corresponding page of the control.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Help Generator
Context-sensitive Help can do much to improve the usability of your
Visual Studio applications by making it easier for users to find out how
to use them. Users will be able to use more features of the
application. The Help Generator for Visual Studio reduces the time
needed for making help and user documentation by 80%. No longer special
help authoring expertise is needed. The Help Generator not only lets you
make the online Help, but also user and technical documentation in Word
or you can publish the help on the web. The Help Generator scans the
WinForms and creates all needed files with content. No other help
authoring has this feature. In the edit step the descriptions are added
to the prefabricated help sections. The help generator can be used with
programming languages in Visual Studio.NET that are WinForms based:
vb.net, C# and j#.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: Line Counter An
add-in for Visual Studio.NET (v2002-2005) and Visual C++ (5, 6) that
counts all the code and comment lines in your open project.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: Macros Manager A Visual Studio .NET 2003 add-in that launches specified macros from a Windows Form.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: Paste as Visual Basic A Visual Studio add-In that converts C# code to Visual Basic.
Visual Studio Add-ins: PowerToys This
set of add-ins augments existing functionality in the Visual Studio 2005
Class Designer and the Distributed Systems Designers. The Design Tools
Enhancements add-in provides a common set of features that can be used
by both the Class Designer and the Distributed System Designers, such as
pan/zoom window and rich formatting commands. The Class Designer
Enhancements add-in provides additional functionality for the Visual
Studio 2005 Class Designer, such as HTML export and nested type creation
commands. This download includes all necessary source code and a Visual
Studio project template for creating your own add-ins for the Visual
Studio 2005 designers. The Class Designer is a developer productivity
tool available in Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition and above, which
allows developers to easily visualize, design, refactor, and document
their code. The Distributed System Designers enable software architects,
operations managers, and developers to visually design service-oriented
solutions and validate them at design time against their operational
environments. The Distributed System Designers are a core component of
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects and the Visual
Studio 2005 Team System.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Project Explorer For Microsoft Developer Studio.
It has been tested with Version VC++ 6 and Service Pack 3. It adds the
ability to launch windows explorer in the directory of the currently
active project. Although only a very simple ability, it is one that is
very handy and I use all the time.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: ReSharper An
add-in to Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005 with intelligent coding
assistance, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick error correction, as
well as unmatched support for code refactoring, unit testing, and more:
Error Highlighting and Quick-Fixes, Advanced Coding Assistance,
Numerous Refactorings, Navigation and Search, Unit Testing, ASP.NET
Editing, NAnt and MS Build Scripts Editing.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Reflector Allows you to inspect assemblies, browse objects, disassemble, and has more very useful features.
Visual Studio Add-ins: RegExInator Supports easier development of RegEx statements from within the Visual Studio IDE.
Visual Studio Add-ins: RegexDesigner
.NET A powerful visual tool for helping you construct and test .NET
Regular Expressions. When you are happy with your regular expression,
RegexDesigner.NET lets you integrate it into your application through
native C# or VB.NET code generation and compiled assemblies (usable from
any .NET language).
Visual Studio Add-ins: Resource Refactoring Tool
A project to develop an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Standard or above that allows developers to refactor string literals in
to resource files directly from the code window.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: Sandcastle Suite Features:
Sandcastle documentation, Classdiagram renamer and exporter, solution
stats, file types and there count, lines of code, statistics log and
graphical view, FTP upload HTML document.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Screen Capture Allows the developer to capture
snapshots of the application being debugged or of any open window.
Includes C# source, Hotkey support, capture your application, capture
full screen, capture active window, select window to capture with mouse.
Visual Studio Add-ins: SharpTools An
extensible add-in to the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET development
environment, and a software development kit (SDK) supporting the rapid
development of further extensions which will run within SharpTools.
These further extensions to SharpTools are called SharpTool plug-ins.
SharpTools also includes several specific plug-ins, implemented to
assist programmers in developing, debugging, testing and documenting
code developed within the Visual Studio.NET development environment.
Includes: Code Library Plugin, DataViewer Plugin, RSS Blog Reader
Plugin.
Visual Studio Add-ins: SlickEdit Gadgets Some
of the gadgets provide useful utilities and some of them are just for
fun. Includes: Editor Gadgets, Command Spy, File Explorer, Data Object
Analyzer, SLOC Report.
Visual Studio Add-ins: SlickEdit Tools SlickEdit
Tools v1.1 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 seamlessly integrates the
following features into your preferred development environment.
SlickEdit Tools only integrates with Visual Studio 2005, and will not
run with previous versions or Express editions of Visual Studio.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Smart Paster This
valuable free add-in features the Paste As… command in the pop-up
context menu. Paste as comment, String, StringBuilder, or region.
Visual Studio Add-ins: SmartOutline A
utility that enables enhanced region outlining. SmartOutline regions are
supported with any VS2005 programming language and file type that can
be opened in Visual Studio editor. The utility is developed as VSIP
package and integrated with Visual Studio 2005.
Visual Studio Add-ins: SolutionZipper Cleans and zips a Solution in one step. Provides a simplified version of these add-ins: ProjectZip, ZipStudio.
Visual Studio Add-ins: SqlScripter A
conversion of the SqlScripter product to a SharpTools plugin, which
allows you to generate a SQL script of all table data, which can be
useful for data migration, versioning, deployment, etc.
Visual Studio Add-ins: StudioSpell
Speller add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2005, 2003, 2002),
provides a user friendly tool for checking Web page HTML and strings in
source code - StudioSpell analyzes only the text that could appear
in-front of a user.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: TFS Follow Branch History The
goal of this project is to fulfill the missing feature of full branch
history of items in the Team Foundation Server (TFS) explorer GUI.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: VFPX A Visual
FoxPro Community effort to create open source add-ons for Visual FoxPro
9.0. Includes ClassBrowserX, Code Analyst, ctl32_scontainer,
ctl32_statusbar, GDIPlusX, JustBehave, New Property and Method
Replacement, OOP Menu Project, Outlook2003Bar.
Visual Studio Add-ins: VFPy Visual
FoxPro Community effort to create open source add-ons for Microsoft
Visual FoxPro. Projects include: ActiveVFP, MTmyVFP, FullTextVFP,
VFPWebSpider, VFPRobotics, VFPGoogled.
Visual Studio Add-ins: VS.Php A PHP
integrated development environment based on Visual Studio. Design,
develop, debug and deploy PHP applications within the Visual Studio IDE.
VS.Php key features are around providing rich PHP and Smarty editing
capabilities as well as its ability to debug PHP scripts locally as well
as remotely.
Visual Studio Add-ins: VSFileFinder2005 An updated version of the file
finder tool for Visual Studio 2005. This version is completely rewritten
in C# and includes a new setting screen that integrates with the Visual
Studio Options dialog.
Visual Studio Add-ins: VSHelper
Registers 10 new commands, which you can map to key combinations or
access from the toolbar including Cut and copy, Close all secondary
windows, FindNext and FindPrev, Show the Output and Find Results
windows, Sswitch between C/CPP and H files, find document in the
Solution Explorer, Go to the first column (VS 2003 version only),
Settings, and more.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Visual Assist X
Read, write, refactor, and navigate faster than ever with more than 50
powerful features integrated seamlessly into your Microsoft development
environments.
Visual Studi[/color]o Add-ins: [color=red]VsCommander
VsCommander is an add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows you to
associate file extensions in Solution Explorer with user-defined
commands. The commands are added as context menu items on the file in
Solution Explorer.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: WSCF -
Schema-Based Contract-First Web Services WSCF offers a simple yet
powerful WSDL Wizard that abstracts away all the nitty-gritty details of
WSDL and therefore does not give room for making errors and wrong
assumptions just by trying to use and applying everything that can be
done stated by the original WSDL specification.
Visual Studio Add-ins: WebReports8 After installing, there are new
commands available in the command window as well as in the context menu
of the Solution Explorer. Most of them use a new Tool window to output
the results of the commands and to offer new functionalities in the
context of the reported items.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: XML Visualizer XML
Visualizer for Visual Studio .NET 2005) allows you to visualize most
XML and XML-backed data sources during runtime a la Whidbey's "debugger
visualizers".
Visual Studio Add-ins: XPathmania
XPathmania is a way to write and test your XPath statements to either
create your own console or Window application, create a test XSLT (using
the XSLT debugger), or worse, put break points in your code, and use
the edit and continue feature. Part of the open source Mvp.Xml project
(www.mvpxml.org).
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Visual Studio Add-ins: Zip Project Allows the developer to create a ZIP
archive of project files from within the VS.NET IDE. Includes the
compiled assembly for those who only want the plugin, just copy the
assembly to your SharpTools installation folder, next time you start
VS.NET it will appear. Requires SharpTools.
Visual Studio Add-ins: ZipStudio Provides a means of zipping up complete
or partial Visual Studio solutions and projects and associated files,
directly from in Visual Studio itself.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: dbManager Allows
you to execute T-SQL scripts, modify database schemas, backup and
restore databases, and a host of other necessary functions. With
dbManager, you have the power to manage your databases effectively.
Visual Studio Add-ins: devAdvantage A refactoring tool coupled with a
static code analyzer to create a unique tool that understands code for
the purpose of improving it. When integrated into Microsoft® Visual
Studio .NET and fueled with a knowledgebase of rules and standards,
devAdvantage can work with you to pinpoint issues, transform your C#
code and lower your total cost of development.
Visual Studio Add-ins: devMetrics Gathers
source code metrics. By measuring important attributes of your code,
such as quality and complexity, devMetrics can help manage work and
identify problem areas.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: tangible architect Generates persistent object models from UML or C# interfaces, O/R mapping, and many other features.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Work Item Paste
Attachment from Clipboard Project to develop a Visual Studio add-in so
you can "paste" items directly as Team Foundation work item attachments
from your clipboard. The most common use case are screen shots.
Currently, there is no stable release.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: vsPropertyGenerator
This Visual Studio 2005 add-in creates and removes properties to C#
classes. It works like "Generate Getters/Setters" feature in the Eclipse
IDE.
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Visual Studio Add-ins: x.doc x.doc is
short for "External Documentation". It is a Visual Studio (VS) 2005
add-in that provides a means to manage and visualize source-code comment
documentation interactively in the IDE. Its main feature is that it
provides an easy way to 'externalize' the documentation comments using
the documentation XML <include> tag. x.doc is completely developed
in C#, uses no third-party libraries, and is built specifically for
VS2005/.NET 2.0. Currently, x.doc only supports documentation management
for C# code files, but sufficient place-holders have been coded to make
this add-in work for the other languages.
Visual Studio Add-ins: Code Style
Enforcer A DXCore plug-in for Visual Studio that checks the code against
a configurable code standard and best practices. It is developed for
C#, but some of the rules will also work for VB .NET, though not tested.
The default rules are based on the C# Coding Standard from IDesign
