Author Archives: Sergey Vlasov

Publishing Visual Studio extensions with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 support

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Out of the box Visual Studio 2010 supports extensions development only for VS 2010 and Visual Studio 11 supports extensions development only for VS 11. If your Visual Studio extension supports both VS 2010/VS 11 and doesn’t contain much version … Continue reading →

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Favorite Documents v1.3 released

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Favorite Documents is a free extension that lets you create links to frequently used code files and then quickly open them as a group or individually from the Favorites menu in Visual Studio 2010. Favorite Documents v1.3 adds the ability … Continue reading →

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Shark Compiler Control for Visual Studio review

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Shark Compiler Control by Sören Kewenig speeds up C++ compilation in Visual Studio 2010, 2008 and 2005 using multiple processor cores. It works similar to the /MP switch, but with less restrictions and more convenient control. Visual Studio has built-in … Continue reading →

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ZenCoding extension for Visual Studio 2010 review

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

ZenCoding extension for Visual Studio 2010 speeds up HTML coding expanding short Zen commands into full-fledged HTML code. For example, to create a 2*3 table in HTML you type “table>(tr>td*3)*2” and press expand: <table> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> … Continue reading →

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Elastic Tabstops for Visual Studio 2010 review

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Elastic Tabstops extension for Visual Studio 2010 automatically aligns columns of text in your source files: The original idea of elastic tabstops was invented by Nick Gravgaard (see his explanation). He proposes first to use tabs as separators of columns … Continue reading →

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Visual Assist X review

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Assist X is a code refactoring and code navigation add-in for Visual Studio. For C++ developers like myself this is the best productivity booster. I started to use Visual Assist with Visual C++ 6 and up to Visual Studio … Continue reading →

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Tabs Studio v2.5.5 released

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Tabs Studio is a Visual Studio add-in empowering you to work comfortably with any number of open documents. See what’s new in v2.5.5. Download the installer.

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