List of Microsoft Visual Studio Add-ins
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The following is a list of Microsoft Visual Studio Add-ins. Add-ins are software products
designed to be used in conjunction with and extend Microsoft Visual Studio
. There are many versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, so some of these products may not be compatible with all versions of the product. Managed add-ins are typically found in the following location on Windows Vista and higher: C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Visual Studio {version}\Addins. COM
-based add-ins can be installed anywhere as their directories are specified via the registry
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Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
designed to be used in conjunction with and extend Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...
. There are many versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, so some of these products may not be compatible with all versions of the product. Managed add-ins are typically found in the following location on Windows Vista and higher: C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Visual Studio {version}\Addins. COM
Component Object Model
Component Object Model is a binary-interface standard for software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993. It is used to enable interprocess communication and dynamic object creation in a large range of programming languages...
-based add-ins can be installed anywhere as their directories are specified via the registry
Windows registry
The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform: the kernel, device drivers, services, SAM, user...
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IDE add-ins
- XmlInfo Framework A free suite comprising an add-in for VS2005/VS2008/VS2010 and two applications that use xml and a Wizard like interfaces to streamline the information from the developer to testing team, publishing, customer. Can be automated into the development/release process.
- Muse VSExtensions - Productivity extension tool for adding a GAC reference to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 project
- Agent SVN A plugin to integrate Subversion with any version of Visual Studio
- UTMA Add-in - UTMA is all about consistency of text strings in the source code. For Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010.
- TUsvnaAddIn - An Open source Tortoise SVN addon for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 WinXP/Windows 7.
- Aggiorno ASP.Net refactoring tool and best practices
- AnkhSVNAnkhSVNAnkhSVN is a free Subversion client, implemented as a source-control plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010+. It is released under the Apache License....
– Provides a Subversion client for Visual Studio - Beweevee for Visual Studio – Based on beWeeVeeBeWeeVeebeWeeVee is a real time co-operative technology currently implemented as a collaborative real-time editor, allowing several persons to edit a text document at the same time, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, each with its own color. It is web-based and allows people using any...
SDK, this add-in enables Live Collaboration inside Visual Studio through a light client. In November 2011, changed its name to Codealike and added new features to the service. - Code Rocket - Pseudocode and flowchart design and visualization.
- JustCodeJustCodeJustCode is a refactoring and code analysis productivity plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005, 2008 and 2010. JustCode is developed by Telerik and launched in 2009...
- Refactoring and code analysis productivity plugin - Code Compare - File and folder comparison add-in, available in a standalone version as well
- CodeRushCodeRushCodeRush is a refactoring and productivity plugin by DevExpress that extends native functionality of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010....
- Refactoring and productivity plugin - CompareEnter - Free add-in to compare files and the containing folders by using customizable external comparison application.
- CopyAsHTML - Takes source code and creates an HTML markup that preserves indentation and coloring.
- DesignboxDesignboxDesignbox for Visual Studio is a UI design productivity tool for Microsoft Visual Studio. It adds a new toolbox window that can associate initial property values with control items. It then applies these initial values to the control each time that control is drag and dropped onto the Form Designer...
- Adds a toolbox that lets you associate initial property values with controls - DotfuscatorDotfuscatorDotfuscator is software used for obfuscation of .NET assemblies. Among its abilities are mangling of identifier names into unreadable characters, but also changing control flow into being more unreadable at the IL-level for a human and other relatively advanced changes.Note that name mangling...
– Provides tools to help prevent reverse engineeringReverse engineeringReverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object, or system through analysis of its structure, function, and operation... - Entity Developer - modeling and code generation tool for ADO.NET Entity FrameworkADO.NET Entity FrameworkADO.NET Entity Framework is an object-relational mapping framework for the .NET Framework.-Overview:ADO.NET Entity Framework abstracts the relational schema of the data that is stored in a database and presents its conceptual schema to the application...
, LinqConnect, and LINQ to SQL - GoogleTestAddin - Free Visual Studio 2010 Add-In for GoogleTest
- KodersKodersKoders is a search engine for open source code. It enables software developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects posted at hundreds of open source repositories....
– Adds a search plug-in to search the KodersKodersKoders is a search engine for open source code. It enables software developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects posted at hundreds of open source repositories....
database - PhatStudio – File navigation within a Visual Studio solution by typing partial filenames, and header switch
- Reflector.NET Reflector.NET Reflector is a proprietary software utility for Microsoft .NET combining class browsing, static analysis and decompilation, originally written by Lutz Roeder. MSDN Magazine named it as one of the Ten Must-Have utilities for developers, and Scott Hanselman listed it as part of his "Big Ten...
- a code browsing utility - ReSharperReSharperReSharper is a refactoring and productivity extension by JetBrains that extends native functionality of Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010....
- Refactoring support for .NET languages - Software Diagnostics Developer Edition - an integrated recorder, debugger and profiler for system dynamics
- T4 Editor - add-in for editing T4 templates with syntax highlighting, intellisense and code outlining
- TracExplorerTracExplorerTracExplorer is a Trac client, implemented as an addin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008+. It is released under the GPL v3 License.-Features:* Provides the ability to view and manipulate tickets on your Trac system in Visual Studio...
- TracTracTrac is an open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool. The program is inspired by CVSTrac, and was originally named svntrac due to its ability to interface with Subversion. It is developed and maintained by Edgewall Software....
integration for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 - Visual AssistVisual AssistVisual Assist X is a plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio developed by Whole Tomato. It primarily enhances IntelliSense and syntax highlighting. It also enhances code suggestions, refactoring options and spell checking support for comments. It can also detect basic syntax mistakes, such as use of...
- Refactoring and code navigation support for native C++ and .NET (VC6/VS2003/VS2005/VS2008/VS2010) - VisualSVNVisualSVNVisualSVN is a Subversion client, implemented as an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, that provides an interface to perform the most common revision control operations directly from inside the Visual Studio IDE. VisualSVN is a commercial program, with a free 30-day trial available...
- Subversion integration for Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008/2010. - VSCommands - Provides several IDE enhancements and features such as group/ungroup items or 'locate in solution explorer'
- VsTortoiseVsTortoiseVsTortoise is a free-of-charge add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 that provides an interface to perform the most common revision control operations directly from inside the Visual Studio IDE...
- A free TortoiseSVNTortoiseSVNTortoiseSVN is a Subversion client, implemented as a Microsoft Windows shell extension. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.TortoiseSVN won the SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Award for Best Tool or Utility for Developers....
add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 - HgSccPackage - Mercurial Source Control Plugin for Visual Studio 2008/2010
- VisualHG - Mercurial Source Control Plugin for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010
- XMLSpyXMLSpyXMLSpy is an XML editor and integrated development environment from Altova. XMLSpy allows developers to create XML-based and Web services applications using technologies such as XML, XML Schema, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, WSDL, and SOAP...
– Integrates the XMLSpy IDE into Visual Studio - Bugnet Explorer Suite - Integrates Bugnet Issue and Project Management into Visual Studio and SVN
- Tabs Studio - Provides multiple tab rows and customizable tab grouping. ( 30 day free trial)
- SharpSort – C# source code members sorting and grouping
- UModel - Integrates support for all 14 UML diagram types and code engineering functionality directly in Visual Studio. (VS2005/VS2008/VS2010)
- WinGDB – Debug with GDB directly from Visual Studio. Remote Linux (via SSH), MinGW. Cygwin, embedded systems.
- wave-vs.net – Plugin to enable Remote Pair Programming in Visual Studio, supports Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010
- Qt Visual Studio Add-in - Qt support in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010.
- GhostDoc - free Visual Studio extension that automatically generates XML documentation comments for methods and properties based on their type, parameters, name, and other contextual information.
- AXtools CodeSmart Provides a large amount of IDE enhancements and features for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 ( 30 day free trial)
- RockScroll - extends the scrollbar in Visual Studio to show a syntax highlighted thumbnail view of your source. For Visual Studio 2005/2008.
- QuickUnit C# & VB.NET Unit Test Designer - Allows developers to easily design, generate and validate high-quality Unit Tests. Supports Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 (free 30-day trial).
- metalscroll - an alternative for RockScroll, a Visual Studio add-in which replaces the editor scrollbar with a graphic representation of the code. Compared to the original, this version has a number of improvements.
- TranSolution - Simplifies localization, the process of translating .NET solutions into foreign languages for international markets.
- GTalk Add In - A Google Talk Client inside visual studio
- VsVim - Free VimVim (text editor)Vim is a text editor written by Bram Moolenaar and first released publicly in 1991. Based on the vi editor common to Unix-like systems, Vim is designed for use both from a command line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface...
emulator plugin for Visual Studio 2010 - Windows 7 Jump List Support for Visual Studio 2008 - Free and open source add-in that adds the Windows 7 Jump List to Visual Studio 2008
- GeminiGemini (issue tracking system)Gemini is a proprietary web-based issue tracking system and bug tracking system provided by Countersoft, Ltd.- Technology :Gemini is based on Microsoft's .NET Framework. It is developed using C#, ASP.Net,and Microsoft SQL Server...
- Gemini issue tracking plugin for Visual Studio 2008/2010
Language add-ins
- Ada programming language
- Boo programming language
- Eiffel programming languageEiffel (programming language)Eiffel is an ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer and Eiffel Software. The design of the language is closely connected with the Eiffel programming method...
- F# programming language
- HLSL, GLSLGLSLOpenGL Shading Language , is a high-level shading language based on the syntax of the C programming language...
and Cg via NShader - Oxygene programming language
- Python Tools for Visual StudioPython Tools for Visual StudioPython Tools for Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment used for programming in Python supporting intellisense, debugging, profiling, MPI cluster debugging, and more...
via PyTools - PhalangerPhalanger (compiler)Phalanger is a project which was started at Charles University in Prague and was supported by Microsoft. It compiles source code written in the PHP scripting language into CIL byte-code. It handles the beginning of a compiling process which is completed by the JIT compiler component of the .NET...
, for building ASP.NET applications using PHPPHPPHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... - VS.Php, for building PHPPHPPHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
applications via VS.Php - CodeDrive, for building ActionScript 3ActionScriptActionScript is an object-oriented language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. . It is a dialect of ECMAScript , and is used primarily for the development of websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of...
applications via CodeDrive - IronPython Studio, IronPythonIronPythonIronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language targeting the .NET Framework and Mono. Jim Hugunin created the project and actively contributed to it up until Version 1.0 which was released on September 5, 2006. Thereafter, it was maintained by a small team at Microsoft until...
IDE for Visual Studio 2008, available with source code at CodePlex - nFringe - a Visual Studio plug-in for UnrealScriptUnrealScriptUnrealScript is the scripting language of the Unreal Engine and is used for authoring game code and gameplay events....
developed by Pixel Mine
Other
- XNA Game StudioMicrosoft XNAMicrosoft XNA is a set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates video game development and management. XNA attempts to free game developers from writing "repetitive boilerplate code" and to bring different aspects of game production into a single system...
A framework to easily make games using Visual C# - BREW Mobile Platform (BREWMP) Project Wizard and Compilation Toolbar The BREWMPBinary Runtime Environment for WirelessBrew is an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for CDMA mobile phones, featuring third party applications such as mobile games. It is offered in some feature phones but not in smart phones...
Platform SDK which includes a Visual Studio 2008 add-in. There is a project wizard for creating BREWMP projects and a small toolbar for compiling for different hardware platforms. - Pronexus' VBVoice™ - a rapid application developmentRapid application developmentRapid application development is a software development methodology that uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping. The "planning" of software developed using RAD is interleaved with writing the software itself...
(RAD) Interactive Voice ResponseInteractive voice responseInteractive voice response is a technology that allows a computer to interact with humans through the use of voice and DTMF keypad inputs....
(IVR) toolkit for telephonyTelephonyIn telecommunications, telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other....
and speech inside Microsoft Visual StudioMicrosoft Visual StudioMicrosoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...
.NET. - BlueSSIS - a suite of controls for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.
- Voice Elements - a .NET development toolkit for building automated telephonyTelephonyIn telecommunications, telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other....
applications. - Visual Guard A solution to add application-level permissions, authentication and audit to .NET applications.
- MPCL Enable/Disable parallel compilation for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2008.