Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools

Voor de mensen die Visual Studio 2010 gebruiken... Erg handig!!

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Version: 10.0.11019.3

Solution Navigator  (Updated)
Solution Navigator is a new tool window that acts like an enhanced Solution Explorer

Tab Well UI 

This extension allows you to completely customize the behaviour of your document tabs from the Productivity Power Tools Options

Searchable Add Reference Dialog
The new Add Reference dialog makes it faster and easier for you to find the reference that you are looking for and add it to your VB, C# or F# project

Tools Options Support

The number one feature request by far has been the ability to turn off the individual extensions in the Productivity Power Tools.

Quick Access

Quick Access is a new tool window that allows users to search for and execute common tasks within the Visual Studio IDE.

Auto Brace CompletionAutomatic Brace Completion improves the productivity of writing code by automatically inserting the closing code construct when the opening construct is typed for VB & C#

Highlight Current Line
As the resolution of monitors increases, it’s becoming more difficult to find the caret in the code editor.

HTML Copy
This extension provides support for the HTML Clipboard format when cutting or copying code from the editor.

Triple Click
It’s never been easier to select a line of code from the mouse by simple triple-clicking anywhere on the line.

Fix Mixed Tabs
Some developers prefer tabs, others prefer spaces, and nobody likes mixing tabs & spaces.

Ctrl + Click Go To Definition
This extension gives the editor a web browser by adding clickable hyperlinks to symbols in your code as you hold down the Ctrl key

Align Assignments
This extension is useful for making your code a little more readable by aligning the assignments when you type Ctrl+Alt+]

Move Line Up/Down Commands
This extension maps the Alt+Up Arrow & Alt+Down Arrow keys such that they will move the current line of code or the selected lines up and down through the editor. 

Column Guides
Since Visual Studio 2002, there has been a not so secret registry key which allowed user to draw a vertical line in the code editor.

Colorized Parameter Help
This extension improves consistency with the editor by applying syntax highlighting to the contents of the Parameter Help window for C# &VB.

Via: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukmsdn/archive/2011/02/22/visual-studio-2010-productivity-power-tools.aspx

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Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets

Turns out that Visual Studio already has this “hidden” feature. It’s called the Clipboard Ring. If you copy a number of items to the clipboard, pressing [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[V] will paste the last text that was copied, but it will also highlight the pasted phrase. Continue holding down [Ctrl]+[Shift] and press [V] again. This will cause that highlighted section to cycle through the other items on the clipboard. This is extremely useful when you have to copy multiple lines of separate text to a new document.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/10/tips-and-tricks-clipboard-ring-and-toolbox-snippets.aspx