Popular and Useful Extensions for Visual Studio
Below is the list of extensions that are useful to have in Visual Studio.
Visual Studio:
- Resharper: A must-have for every developer be it C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XAML. It allows refactoring (it can identify loops to be converted to LINQ statements), improves Code Quality, and keeps in check the coding standards.
- NuGet Package Manager: It’s a package manager that helps in automating the process of installing/managing packages in Visual Studio Projects.
- Web Essentials 2012 and Web Essentials 2013 for Update 2: A must-have an extension for Visual Studio both for 2012 and 2013. It has many features which help to write HTML, JavaScript, CSS
- Productivity Power Tools 2012 and Productivity Power Tools 2013: Another extension which provides some nice features to make Visual Studio more productive and helpful while coding
- Microsoft Code Digger: It can be used to analyze execution paths and provides you with the behavior of code for each execution path.
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools
- Git Source Control Provider: Integrate Git into Visual Studio
Web Development:
- SideWaffle Template Pack: It adds project templates for web development
- Hot Towel Spa (VS 2013) and Hot Towel Spa (VS 2012): Template created by John Papa which can be used as a starting point for developing Single Page Application.
- BackboneJS SPA Template: Template to create a SPA with a backbone
- Durandal: An MVC4 SPA using Durandal
- JSLint.VS2012: It adds support for JSLint in Visual Studio
- jQuery Code Snippets: As the name suggest, this extension provides developers with Jquery Code Snippets
- TypeScript 1.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2012: Provides features for using TypeScript in Visual Studio
- Advanced JavaScript outlining: Provides outlining similar to available in cs files
- SharpKit: Write C# and convert it to JavaScript
Others:
- CodeMaid: Nice extension for cleaning up the code
- WPF MVVM project template: Template which provides a jumpstart for MVVM enabled WPF projects.
- Free .NET Excel API: Provides options to create and manage Excel files
- Visual Studio Design Patterns add-in: Very very useful extension which provides a jump start to create skeleton code while implementing Design Patterns
- Bing Code Search for C#: Allows developers to search right from Visual Studio (currently only available in VS 2013)
- Layered Architecture Solution Guidance 2013: An extension which provides various options to create standard project templates like Web Application, Windows, WPF
- Entity Framework Power Tools: A must-have tool for anyone working on EF, it allows developers to generate POCO classes from the Database and use that as a Code-First approach
I will try to keep on adding to this list if I find any more
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