Developers Love Their Tools...

Seriously, I think there are few things that Developers are more passionate about than the tools and toys they use to code.  Carl has compiled a great list of Free Visual Studio 2005 Addins.  You can read the list here. 

The addins that I use on a (almost) daily basis for VS 2005 are (in no particular order):

  • AnkhSVN
  • CodeKeep Add-in
  • GhostDoc 2.1.1 (wish there was a VB version of this one)
  • Modeling Power Toys
  • Pinvoke.Net Addin
  • Refactor! family of Addins
  • Smart Paster 1.1 (HUGE time saver)
  • Dpack

If you know of one that is not listed on Carl's blog, just drop a comment and he'll evaluate and add it.  Please be aware that I think he has a 15-20 addin backlog at this moment.

As Orcas (ahem, Visual Studio 2008) is right around the corner, I'd be interested to see a list of addins for that IDE.  Wishful thinking, but if you see a list - drop me a line.

 

Enjoy!

Published 01 October 07 10:08 by Greg

Comments

# Carl J said on October 2, 2007 2:47 AM:

Hey Greg, thanks for the post back, I really do appreciate it.

Currently I have over 20+ Addins queued up to test for part 2 of the list, with a few of them being somewhat unknown gems. However, I am still taking suggestions for more Addins that aren't on the first list.

As for a list of Orcas Addins, I'd love to do one, but I think I will wait till Orcas is released, and more Addins are working for it. When I did my first list, I only came across a couple of Orcas only Addins, and a few that supported both VS2005 and Orcas.

Once again, thanks a lot,

Carl J

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