Thursday, October 14, 2010

Cool Visual Studio 2010 Extensions

Came across the PowerCommands extension for VS2010. Does some cool stuff, like


  • giving you a shortcut to reopen recently closed documents (and an optional windows displaying a list of recently closed documents).

  • adds a command on the context menu of the solution explorer that will open up a command prompt with the working directory set to the path of the item you clicked on.

  • Adds a command to open the containing folder of an item clicked on in the solution explorer.

  • copy and paste references.

  • email a code snippet.


http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/e5f41ad9-4edc-4912-bca3-91147db95b99


For those of us used to scroll in any direction by dragging with the middle mouse button in almost any Microsoft product, this AutoScroll extension will re-add that functionality to Visual Studio 2010. (This is not an invitation for a debate on class sizes!)

http://vs2010autoscroller.codeplex.com/

There are a couple of other add-ons and extensions that I also use (and won't go without) such as Resharper, Ankh (for svn), TestDriven.Net (though Resharper can do the same stuff) and GhostDoc.