Question

What are your recommended extensions for Visual Studio 2010?
(Please indicate if its free or not And also its purpose / function too)

Answer 1

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Free:

• VsCommandBudy – Extend VS with external commands where really need them (Free)
• PowerCommands – useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2010 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE.
• DevExpress CodeRush Xpress – Coding assistance, Intellisense navigation,etc.
• AnkhSVN – Subversion Support for Visual Studio.
• Ghost Doc – Simplify your XML Comments.
• Visual Studio Color Theme Editor – make your VS2010 look pretty with themes.
• VsVim – VIM emulation layer for Visual Studio.
• DPack – FREE collection of Microsoft Visual Studio tools.
• VSFileNav – fast searcher with wildcards + camel case searches.
• Sonic file finder – fast and convenient search.
• AllMargins
• tangible T4 Editor plus modeling tools for VS2010 adds IntelliSense and Syntax Coloring to T4 Text Templates
• Word Wrap with Auto-Indent
• Indentation Matcher Extension
• Structure Adornment
  • BlockTagger
  • BlockTaggerImpl
  • SettingsStore
  • SettingsStoreImpl
• Source Outliner – not available on this link.
• Triple Click – Makes triple click select an entire line.
• ItalicComments
• Go To Definition – Make ctrl+click perform a “Go To Definition” on the identifier under the cursor
• Spell Checker – not available on this link.
• Remove and Sort Using – Adds a context menu entry to Solution Explorer that sorts and removes using statements on every file in the solution, project, or on the individual file.
• Format Document – Adds a context menu entry to Solution Explorer and the code window that executes the Edit-Advance-Format Document command on every file in the solution, project, or current code window.
• Open Folder in Windows Explorer – Extends the Open Folder in Windows Explorer context menu option to the code editor and to all files in solution explorer.
• Find Results Highlighter – Highlights the search text in the find results windows.
• Regular Expressions Margin – A margin which exposes .Net Regular Expressions search and replace capabilities on a given code window.
• VSCommands – not available on this link.
• HelpViewerKeywordIndex – Visual Studio Extension for the Microsoft Help Viewer
• StyleCop – StyleCop analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of best practice style and consistency rules.
• Extension Analyzer – Extension Analyzer helps debug issues with VSIX Components, Visual Studio Packages, PkgDef Files and MEF Components.
• CodeCompare – Code Compare is an advanced file and folder comparison tool. This programming languages oriented diff tool can be used as a Visual Studio add-in and as a standalone application.
• Team Founder Server Power Tools – not available on this link
• VS10x Selection Popup – not available on this link
• Color Picker Completion – not available on this link
• Numbered Bookmarks – Numbered Bookmarks allows users to create and recall bookmarks by using numbers. User can create 10 bookmarks (starting from 0 to 9).
• Mouse Zoom – Mouse zoom at the mouse’s cursor instead of at the top of the visible document. See VS options…
• Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools – A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
• JSEnhancements – provides outlining and matching braces highlighting features for Visual Studio JavaScript editor; provides fantastic #region collapsing in JS and CSS files, making long files much easier to handle;
• Code Contracts Editor Extensions – Displays Code Contracts (when editing C#) in code, Intellisense, and in metadata files.
• WoVS Quick Add Reference – Add missing assembly references right from the code editor
• JScript Editor Extensions –
• Align By
• T4 Editor
• Quick Open File for Visual Studio 2010 – quick opening any solution file
• CleanProject – Cleans Visual Studio Solutions
• PhatStudio – fast file navigation and quickly opening files
• VsVim – Vim style keyboard shorcuts
• Chutzpah – Open source JavaScript test runner
• I Hate #Regions – makes expanded regions less disturbing by making the font smaller

Not Free:

• Resharper
• Visual Assist X
• JustCode
• ViEmu
• CodeRush with Refactor! Pro
• VisualSVN
• VS10x Code Map – displays a graphical nested representation of the current editor window code
• VS10x Editor View Enhancer