Tag Archives: Visual Studio 2013

Smooth caret movement for Visual Studio

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

The new Smooth Caret extension adds smooth caret movement animation for text editors in Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013/2015. It looks similar to the smooth typing feature in Microsoft Office 2013. Download the installer.

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Favorite Documents v2.1 adds bookmarks and subfolders

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

Favorite Documents extension lets you create links to frequently used code files and then quickly open them as a group or individually in Visual Studio 2010+. v2.1 now saves and restores the cursor position in a favorite document and adds … Continue reading →

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ReSharper C++

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

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 Sergey Vlasov

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 Community Edition 2013

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Sergey Vlasov

Yesterday Microsoft released a new Visual Studio 2013 edition – Visual Studio Community 2013: Internally it is Visual Studio Professional 2013 with Update 4 (that normally costs $499) excluding SharePoint, Office, LightSwitch and Cloud Business Applications from the installer, but … Continue reading →

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Separating C++ project properties between VS 2010 and VS 2013

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Sergey Vlasov

Since Visual Studio 2010, common C++ project properties (e.g. external VC++ Directories like Include Directories and Library Directories) are defined in property sheet files and managed with the Visual Studio Property Manager. See Sharing project properties in Visual C++ by … Continue reading →

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Continuous Formatting v1.1 adds support for ReSharper and CodeRush code formatters

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Sergey Vlasov

Continuous Formatting extension automates C# and C++ code formatting in Visual Studio 2013/2012/2010. It removes the necessity to format code manually, arranging code continuously as you type and make changes. Continuous Formatting v1.1 adds support for ReSharper and CodeRush code … Continue reading →

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See more lines of code with syntactic line compression

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Sergey Vlasov

The recent May 2014 update of Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013 adds the syntactic line compression feature. “It shrinks lines that contain neither letters nor numbers by 25% vertically, allowing more lines to be displayed in the editor.” … Continue reading →

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Tabs Studio v3.2.0 adds support for SQL Server Management Studio 2014

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Sergey Vlasov

Tabs Studio is a Visual Studio and SSMS add-in empowering you to work comfortably with any number of open documents. v3.2.0 adds support for SSMS 2014 and the ability to show an SQL query description in the SSMS tab name. … Continue reading →

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Visual Commander v1.6 adds common code modules for commands and extensions

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Commander is a freemium extension for Visual Studio 2010+ allowing you to automate repetitive tasks in the IDE. Visual Commander Professional v1.6 adds the ability to create common code modules that can be reused from different commands and extensions: … Continue reading →

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