blogs.conchango.com

welcome to the conchango blogging site
Welcome to blogs.conchango.com Sign in | Join | Help
in Search

Howard van Rooijen's Blog

Howard's List of Ultimate Visual Studio.NET AddIns

After reading Scott Hanselman’s post “Scott’s List of Ultimate Visual Studio.NET AddIns” I decided to put my own together, especially as I was told during my last appraisal that I’d have to give a presentation to our .NET Community about all the AddIns I’ve got installed.

  • devAdvantage – coding standards compliance enforcement / refactoring tool - I was awarded a free copy for being a Top Beta Tester :)
  • HandleWhiteSpace – automatically corrects spacing issues (yes I am a CSN – Coding Standards Nazi as well as a CSM)
  • SortCode Macro – automatically arranges members of a type into a preset order (see CSN statement above)
  • DataSet Quick Watch – DataSet Visualizer - see the contents of a DataSet as Xml or bound to a DataGrid
  • Smart Paster 1.1 – paste code as; comments, StringBuilder, Region or String
  • Project Line Counter – reports on Lines of Code, Lines of Comments etc
  • Regions Addin – create new regions or move code to pre-existing regions
  • CopySourceAsHtml – does exactly what is says on the tin
  • ReSharper - As Frosti says in the comments "your coding will never be the same again!". Refactoring ala VSTS available in VS.NET 2003.
  • Clean Sources - Explorer shell extension, which recursively deletes bin, obj and setup folders. Useful for cleaning up VS solutions before sharing with others.
  • WSContractFirst Addin - Christian Weyer's excellent addin allows you to easily develop Contract First web services.

Update: I've added the last three entries as I've been using them over the last month or so.

Published 14 November 2004 23:55 by howard.vanrooijen

Comment Notification

If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here

Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS

Comments

 

TrackBack said:

Smart Paster 1.1 Add-In - StringBuilder and Better C# Handling
November 29, 2004 21:58
 

howard.vanrooijen said:

Hi! I noticed that the 'ultimate' VS.NET (2003)plugin is NOT on TOP of your list !!

That is of course : ReSharper (R#) from Jetbrains (of IDEA/IntelliJ fame, refactoring gods!) .

This is by far the most impressive plugin I've ever used. After using it, your coding will never be the same again! (in a very positive way)
Check it out at www.jetbrains.com . I wonder how i could ever live without it. Scary good stuff IMHO.
Your tools are excellent ... Keep up the good work and thanks alot :)
January 16, 2005 00:23
 

howard.vanrooijen said:

Frosti,

Thanks for the feedback - I was intending to update this post over the next week or so anyway - I have been using ReSharper since Xmas and have been very pleased with it.

I used one of the first releases and was less that impressed when it totally corrupted my VS.NET install had given it a wide berth since. But I read a lot of excellent reviews around December time and decided to give it another go. It is excellent. The "rename" refactor implementation has saved me hours of work alone.
January 16, 2005 22:01
 

TrackBack said:

Howard's List of Ultimate Visual Studio.NET AddIns
February 1, 2005 08:39
 

TrackBack said:

AssemblyReflector
February 9, 2005 08:12
 

Lipitor. said:

Lipitor unusual side effect. Lipitor grapefruit juice.

July 16, 2008 14:44

Leave a Comment

(required) 
(optional)
(required) 
Submit
Powered by Community Server (Personal Edition), by Telligent Systems