Author Archives: Sergey Vlasov

Visual Commander adds macro recording and playback for the text editor in Visual Studio 2012/2013

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Commander is a free extension for Visual Studio 2010+ allowing you to automate repetitive tasks in the IDE. You can reuse existing Visual Studio macros from previous versions of the IDE and create new commands and extensions in C# … Continue reading →

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Format C++ code intelligently in Visual Studio with clang-format

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Two month ago in GoingNative 2013 Chandler Carruth demonstrated a new tool clang-format to automatically format C++ code. The whole talk is excellent, but if you just interested in formatting watch between 24 and 32 minutes. For Visual Studio users … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio startup options – Load last loaded solution

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

If you work mostly on a single solution, selecting the Load last loaded solution option for Visual Studio startup configuration will speed up and simplify your Visual Studio launch:  

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Hide class info in Visual Studio Solution Explorer

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Solution Navigator from the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools first merged Solution Explorer and Class View. It added the ability to expand code files to navigate to its classes, expand classes to navigate to their members, and so on. … Continue reading →

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Add images to your code in Visual Studio with the ImageComments extension

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

ImageComments extension by Luke McQuade lets you show images among code in Visual Studio 2010/2012: To add an image you add the specially formatted image comment to your code, like /// <image url=”X:\Path\To\Image.ext” scale=”Y” />. After that the image is … Continue reading →

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Tabs Studio v3.1.5 adds support for multipart names in the title grouping regex

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Tabs Studio is a Visual Studio and SSMS add-in empowering you to work comfortably with any number of open documents. v3.1.5 adds support for multipart names in the title grouping regex. See the full what’s new list. Download the installer.

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Favorite Documents v1.7 adds support for Team Explorer

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Favorite Documents extension lets you create links to frequently used code files and then quickly open them as a group or individually in Visual Studio 2010+. v1.7 adds support for Team Explorer (Integrated Shell) and Source Control Explorer integration for … Continue reading →

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Fake IE10 to install Visual Studio 2013

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Studio 2013 requires Internet Explorer 10. If you try to install it on Windows 7 with IE8 you get the following error “This version of Visual Studio requires Internet Explorer 10”: This prevents use of VS 2013 in many … Continue reading →

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Visual Time Spent v1.0.8 adds support for Visual Studio 2013

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Time Spent automatically tracks your time spent working on solutions, projects and documents in Visual Studio IDE. It allows you to generate reports to see overall time spent and what activities took most time. v1.0.8 adds support for Visual … Continue reading →

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Hide Sign in and Feedback buttons in the Visual Studio 2013 main window

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Studio 2013 adds new elements to the main window such as feedback, notifications and sign in buttons: If you don’t use your account to sign in, then the corresponding button becomes completely useless. Sending feedback for VS is a … Continue reading →

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