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Products and Extensions for Visual Studio which help you get the most out of Visual Studio.

The Visual Studio Gallery provides quick access to tools, controls, and templates to help you get the most out of Visual Studio.

Microsoft also offers a tutorial, where you can gather basic informations on how to develop extensions yourself

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How to make ReSharper re-evaluate its assembly reference highlighting

I am creating a Prism Project Template, and the template works great. But after I create a project with the template some of the files look like this: Despite appearances, everything is just fine. If I do a Rebuild All I see that the solution…
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How to uninstall the "Microsoft Advertising SDK" Visual Studio extension?

One of the extensions listed in Visual Studio (2012 for me) is the "Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8.1". I like to uninstall extensions I don't need, but this one won't allow me. if I hover the (enabled!) button it says in a tooltip: This…
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How to debug Visual Studio extensions

I'm just writing a VSIX extension for Visual Studio 2010 and can't figure out how to debug it. One obvious method is to output messages. Extension template uses Trace.WriteLine(). But where to find it's output?
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How to collapse If, Else, For, Foreach, etc clauses?

I get stuck sometimes with very long clauses and I am looking for a way that allows me to collapse them, same way as I can collapse classes, methods and namespaces by default. Is there a Visual Studio extension that does that? neither ReSharper nor…
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where are custom extensions installed in visual studio?

Where are custom extensions installed in Visual Studio? I know you could get path though ExtensionManager.GetInstalledExtensions(), however it seems none of the paths found corresponds to my extension.
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to move the cursor between methods in Visual Studio 2010?

Is there any keyboard shortcut to move the cursor between methods in Visual Studio? Is there any plugins that can do the same job? All the time when I program, I want to go at the end of the current method and if I could have a shortcut that can…
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Visual Studio Text Editor Extension

I am trying to get started in Visual Studio (2010) extensions and I am having a hard time finding the right materials. I have the SDK, but the included samples seem to be things like adorners, windows, and icons. I am trying to make an extension…
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How to add a button to Visual Studio Intellisense

I would like to add a button to the top of the list of options returned by Visual Studio's IntelliSense. When the button is clicked, my custom code will be executed (which will, among other things, cause a popup to appear). I call it 'button'…
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Custom Intellisense Extension

I am wanting to write an addition to intellisense in Visual Studio. Is it possible to extend at all, from my research I haven't found any samples or documentation on intellisense extensions. How can I get intellisense to show a simple HelloWorld…
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Extension could not be found. Please make sure the extension has been installed

I've been working on a VS extension that creates a couple of files with some boilercode using SideWaffle and I was having a problem where, whenever I'd add a new item, my boilercode item would be under "My Custom Templates". I found this in the…
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What are the little coloured bits on my vertical scroll bar in Visual Studio 2010?

I have only recently paid any attention to the appearance of little green and blue rectangles on my vertical scroll bar in code editing windows in VS2010. Can anyone tell me what these are? I'm running with the Productivity Power Tools extension and…
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How to view column-aligned CSV files in Visual Studio editor

Opening a .csv file in Visual Studio produces an unreadable jumbled mess. Is there any way to set up Visual Studio to automatically format these files in columns (a "grid-view", so to speak) so I can edit them directly in the IDE? Are there any…
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Is there any Visual Studio extension to “favorite” folders and files?

I'm working on a middle-sized project that contains several class libraries, database model and an ASP .NET MVC website project. However, even though there are less than 15 projects in the solution, I often find myself collapsing and expanding…
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How to uninstall a Visual Studio 2013 extension manually?

I just installed an extension to my Visual Studio 2013 app. I decided I don't want that extension so I went to Tools->Extensions and Updates and scrolled down to the extension I want to install. The problem is, the uninstall button doesn't do…
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Alternatives to Resharper

Just before you sigh and mark this question as a duplicate, I can tell you, it is not. I've seen a lot of questions about replacing Resharper with something else, but most of them are out of date. I'd like to get this question raised again with a…
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