Useful Add-Ins or Plug-Ins for native Visual Studio developer

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There are plenty of different Add-Ins for Visual Studio see Visual Studio Gallery . Please share your experiences and favorites.

As motivation, here are some of my favorites:

Tools

For coffe break

  • Powder Toy [F] - build thrilling simulations yourself
  • OE-CAKE [F/C] - build fluid simulations yourself.

Your suggestions:

[F] - freeware [O] - open source [C] - commercial.

C++ Solutions

Solution 1 - C++

I'm amazed that Visual Assist has not been mentioned yet!

Solution 2 - C++

ViEmu is my personal favorite. Emulates VI right inside of VS. :^)

Solution 3 - C++

Is nobody using Resharper? - Shame on you! ;-)

Seriously, you don't know what you're missing (I do, because I've yet to convince my boss to buy it, and my evaluation period has expired)

The addition of this tool to visual studio almost brings it up to the level of IntelliJ Idea for Java

Solution 4 - C++

RockScroll is awesome, but there is something more powerful: MetalScroll :)

btw... I also recommend this patch: http://code.google.com/p/metalscroll/issues/detail?id=9

Solution 5 - C++

VSFileExplorer is a nice file explorer for VS. It's also very helpful when used together with subversion/tortoiseSVN, since it displays the tortoise overlay icons within VS.

and of course

GhostDoc for generation of XML doc comments for methods, properties, classes, ...

Solution 6 - C++

  • Visual assist X
  • P/Invoke
  • Refactor!

Solution 7 - C++

assist is very useful, visual lint is good but boring.

Solution 8 - C++

A minor one by me: Linkify that simplifies links in comments to dev wiki, msdn, bug tracker etc.

Solution 9 - C++

My two pennies worth: TabStudio and RockScroll.

Tab Studio is uber-awesome when working on WPF / Silverlight apps, trying to keep track of any number of code behind, view-model and xaml files.

Rock scroll is great for larger files and quickly finding references.

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