Category Archives: Reviews

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 →

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 →

Microsoft has updated their popular extensions pack Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013. One interesting new feature they have added is Solution Explorer Errors. It shows error, warning, and message squiggles in the Solution Explorer window and hovering over … Continue reading →

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 →

Workspace Reloader extension by Scott Hanselman preserves open documents in Visual Studio when a project is reloaded. When a project in your current solution is changed, typically after an update from a source code repository, Visual Studio asks to reload … Continue reading →

Quick Add Reference extension by Clarius Consulting lets you quickly add a missing reference for a type in C# code. When you use a new type and Visual Studio 2010 asks are you missing an assembly reference, in the correction … Continue reading →

Find in Solution Explorer extension by Sam Harwell lets you quickly locate the open document in Solution Explorer. It adds the Find In Solution Explorer tab context menu command that selects the current document in Solution Explorer: This functionality is … Continue reading →