Functionality of Visual Studio can be extended using Add-ins. Below is the list of Visual Studio Add-ins I use.
Free Visual Studio Helper Add-ins and Tools
| GhostDoc - is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C#. |
| VS 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Add-on - Tools for building SQL databases in a managed project environment with support for versioning, deployment, unit testing, refactoring, and off-line SQL development. This Add-on will work only with Team or Enterprise Editions of Visual Studio 2005. |
| Ankh SVN - is a Subversion plugin for Visual Studio |
| VS 2005 IDE Enhancements - are a set of Visual Studio extensions provides tools to effectively use Visual Studio resources. |
| VS MRU List Editor - Removes not used projects and solutions from Visual Studio most recently used project list. |
| VSCmdShell - combines the command window and the command prompt and makes them available in a single window. |
Visual Studio Extensions for ASP.NET and AJAX programming
If you want to program ASP.NET using AJAX you will need to download and install extensions below.
| ASP.Net AJAX Extensions - is a set of technologies to add AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) support to ASP.NET. It consists of a client-side script framework, server controls, and more. |
| ASP.Net AJAX Control Toolkit - is a joint project between the community and Microsoft. Built upon the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, the Toolkit aims to be the biggest and best collection of web-client components available. |
Visual Studio .Net 3.0 extensions
If you want to program for .Net 3.0 platform using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) programming models download and install extensions and SDK below.
Before installing extensions for WCF and WPF install Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .Net 3.o.
If you are using Windows Vista as your development platform you can install Windows SDK Update for Windows Vista, which is much smaller in size than SDK for Windows Server 2008.
| Windows SDK Update for Windows Vista - provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop Windows applications using both native (Win32) and managed (.NET Framework) technologies. |
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