Category Archives: Reviews

From Code Bubbles to Code Tiles: Working with multiple code fragments without switching tabs

Posted on January 28, 2019 by

Code Bubbles research in 2010 demonstrated how seeing a sizeable number of functions concurrently can significantly reduce a task completion time by minimizing navigation interactions, offloading limited working memory, comparing and understanding functions together, seeing calling relationships, improving ability to … Continue reading →

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Innovative C# debugging experience with OzCode v4

Posted on January 30, 2018 by

Last week, in a Visual Studio Toolbox episode on Channel 9, Omer Raviv highlighted most useful features of the OzCode C# debugging extension for Visual Studio and announced upcoming version 4 introducing a live debugger accessible from a web browser. … Continue reading →

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Use actual type names with Var Replacer

Posted on April 5, 2016 by

If you prefer to see actual type names instead of implicit type var, the new Var Replacer C# extension for Visual Studio 2015 by Peter Spada is a must have. It is implemented as a standard analyzer with a code … Continue reading →

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ReSharper C++

Posted on May 17, 2015 by

JetBrains last month released ReSharper C++ – a Visual Studio extension offering refactoring, navigation, code inspection, quick-fixes and code generation for C++ developers. It doesn’t support C++/CLI and thus of no help for my projects, but for pure native C++ … Continue reading →

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Macros for Visual Studio 2013

Posted on November 21, 2014 by

Visual Studio Platform Team has released the Macros for Visual Studio 2013 extension for VS 2013 to record, edit and execute text editing commands and window operations. You can open the new Macro Explorer tool window from the Tools – … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio code formatting options per solution, directory and file

Posted on December 30, 2013 by

Visual Studio supports only one global set of code formatting options. If you work on several projects/solutions with different formatting styles, you need to change global text formatting options each time you change projects: If you work on a small … Continue reading →

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C++ Rename refactoring for Visual Studio 2013

Posted on December 3, 2013 by

Visual C++ Refactoring extension by Microsoft Visual C++ team lets you rename symbols in C++ code, automatically changing the declaration and all references: You select a symbol in code, invoke Refactor – Rename, enter a new name, preview and select … Continue reading →

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