Category Archives: Reviews

VSCalm extension by Jeremy Iverson restores standard tool window titles format in VS 11 Beta IDE. It changes the ALL CAPS letters to normal title case and removes :::colon-like::: gripper bars: Remove “ALL CAPS” is the #2 request for Visual … Continue reading →

Instant Feature Builder extension by Michael Lehman lets you package documentation, source code and interaction logic to run inside Visual Studio. To see how an end product may look like, you can install one of the several guides that use … Continue reading →

EventHandler Naming extension by Einar Egilsson lets you customize the name format for event handlers automatically generated by Visual Studio 2010. When you subscribe to a control event in the C# Windows Forms designer, Visual Studio generates a method for … Continue reading →

XAML Regions extension by Jacob Johnston helps you organize xaml code by grouping relevant elements and speeds up navigation by collapsing less important blocks of markup. You can create a region with two comment lines containing region/endregion keywords and then … Continue reading →

SharpComments extension by Vitaly Maykovsky lets you change color and font size for individual comments in C# code with a prefix like //! or //+: Comment colors are customizable in Visual Studio options: SharpComments is a free extension, supports only … Continue reading →

Notify Property Weaver extension by Simon Cropp automatically generates PropertyChanged notifications for your classes that implement INotifyPropertyChanged. With this extension you only need to declare properties, their implementation providing notifications on changes will be generated automatically in the binary assembly … Continue reading →

Rename Visual Studio Window Title extension by Erwin Mayer lets you add solution folder name to Visual Studio title. It can be used to distinguish solutions with the same name in different folders or branches. For example, if you have … Continue reading →

VSColorOutput by Blue Onion Software simplifies large logs analysis in the Visual Studio Output window coloring important lines: For example, C++ developers often need to look at the output to find the origin of an error that involves several template … Continue reading →