Tag Archives: Visual Studio extensions

Update duplicate blocks of text in multiple files from Visual Studio 2012/2010 with Sync Block Edit extension

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

It is undesirable, but often necessary to have duplicate blocks of text in multiple files. For example, Google Analytics tracking code in html files or copyright notices in code files. When you need to update this text, sometime you can … Continue reading →

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Fix File Encoding extension prevents Visual Studio 2012/2010 from adding BOM to UTF-8 files

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

When you edit a UTF-8 file in Visual Studio, it adds the byte order mark (BOM) sequence to the beginning of the file. You can select an encoding manually, but you need to do it each time you reopen the … Continue reading →

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Workspace Reloader extension for Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

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 →

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WoVS Quick Add Reference extension for Visual Studio 2010

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

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 →

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Find in Solution Explorer extension for Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

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 →

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VSCalm extension for Visual Studio 11 Beta

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

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 →

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Instant Feature Builder extension for Visual Studio 2010

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

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 →

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EventHandler Naming extension for Visual Studio 2010

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

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 →

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XAML Regions extension for Visual Studio 2010

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

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 →

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SharpComments extension for Visual Studio 2010

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

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 →

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