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Guys,

I opened this question (I hope could help some others) but reading stackoverflow I find some really interesting pearls of information lost in the cloud. What do I mean? For example I was reasearching the Web for the best way to validate parameters in methods. I was breaking my head trying to find a nice, elegant way to do it, then I found a question about Code Contracts.

Then I found that many programmers are using the new FWK 4.0 Contracts and that blew up my mind ( I didn´t even know that exist).- I was trying to reinvent the wheel again.- So there are plenty of plug ins, tools, addons, kits, frameworks, etc and not everybody are aware of all of them.

Perhaps somebody is having a headache during the design of an application and a "well known" VS add on can help you.-

So what is that little tool that you can´t stop using and makes your development much more easy.

Three that I found (Im sorry if this is too newbie)

  1. NetReflector (Sweet!)http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/
  2. VSDocman (For documentation, free trial) http://www.helixoft.com/vsdocman/overview.html
  3. Code Contracts (for parameter validation) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/contracts/
BenMorel
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    This should probably be made CW. – ZombieSheep Feb 25 '10 at 15:36
  • @Zombie, Im sorry what is CW? – MRFerocius Feb 25 '10 at 15:36
  • Possible Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/969225/suggest-good-addins-tools-for-visual-studio-netall-the-versions-2005-2008-etc http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49080/what-are-the-best-visual-studio-addins http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440/visual-studio-optimizations http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100420/hidden-features-of-visual-studio-2005-2008 – Bobby Feb 25 '10 at 15:37
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    Community Wiki - it doesn't have a definitive answer. – ZombieSheep Feb 25 '10 at 15:38
  • @MRFerocius: Click on "edit", check the "community wiki" box, and click the "Save Edits" button. – sbi Feb 25 '10 at 16:00

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I use the following plugins for Visual Studio:

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  • You just made my day, for a week I tried to use Visual Source Safe 2005 with VS2008 and I never been able to configure it properly (over internet) and all the people told me to use subversion, and is great to know this plug in. Thanks. – MRFerocius Feb 25 '10 at 15:38
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Both not free, but definitely worth their price.

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