Category Archives: Reviews

Code Jumper extension for Visual Studio 2010 review

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

Code Jumper by Productive Joe streamlines navigation within a code file listing all methods and properties in a document to a side of the Visual Studio editor. You can navigate to any declaration with a single click in the list: … Continue reading →

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PVS-Studio C++ static code analyzer tool for Visual Studio review

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

PVS-Studio by “Program Verification Systems” finds errors in your C++ code statically analyzing files in a Visual Studio solution. Static analysis tools are a long term investment of time and money in code quality. They can find certain kinds of … Continue reading →

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BugAid tool for Visual Studio review

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

BugAid by Omer Raviv and Vitaly Belman helps you visualize, search and compare live objects data when debugging a C# application in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. In the QuickWatch window or in a popup when you hover … Continue reading →

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Inheritance Margin extension for Visual Studio 2010 review

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Inheritance Margin by Sam Harwell adds special glyphs to virtual methods and properties in the Visual Studio 2010 editor. For interface methods it adds the I glyph and for virtual methods it adds the O glyph: When you hover the … 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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