List of Microsoft Visual Studio add-ins

The following is a list of Microsoft Visual Studio Add-ins. Add-ins are software products designed to be used in conjunction with and extend Microsoft Visual Studio. There are many versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, so some of these products may not be compatible with all versions of the product. Managed add-ins are typically found in the following location on Windows Vista and higher: C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Visual Studio {version}\Addins. COM-based add-ins can be installed anywhere as their directories are specified via the registry.

IDE add-ins

• VSFileNav A free extension for rapidly finding a file in a solution, including camel case and wildcard searching.
• XmlInfo Framework A free suite comprising an add-in for VS2005/VS2008/VS2010 and two applications that use xml and a Wizard like interfaces to streamline the information from the developer to testing team, publishing, customer. Can be automated into the development/release process.
• Muse VSExtensions - Productivity extension tool for adding a GAC reference to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 project
• Agent SVN - A plug-in to integrate Subversion with any version of Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio or PowerBuilder.
• UTMA Add-in - UTMA is all about consistency of text strings in the source code. For Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010.
• TUsvnaAddIn - An Open source Tortoise SVN addon for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 WinXP/Windows 7.
• Aggiorno ASP.Net refactoring tool and best practices
• AnkhSVN – Provides a Subversion client for Visual Studio
• Beweevee for Visual Studio – Based on beWeeVee SDK, this add-in enables Live Collaboration inside Visual Studio through a light client. In November 2011, changed its name to Codealike and added new features to the service.
• Code Rocket - Pseudocode and flowchart design and visualization.
• JustCode - Refactoring and code analysis productivity plugin
• Code Compare - File and folder comparison add-in, available in a standalone version as well
• CodeRush - Refactoring and productivity plugin
• CompareEnter - Free add-in to compare files and the containing folders by using customizable external comparison application.
• CopyAsHTML - Takes source code and creates an HTML markup that preserves indentation and coloring.
• Designbox - Adds a toolbox that lets you associate initial property values with controls
• Dotfuscator – Provides tools to help prevent reverse engineering
• Entity Developer - modeling and code generation tool for ADO.NET Entity Framework, LinqConnect, and LINQ to SQL
• GoogleTestAddin - Free Visual Studio 2010 Add-In for GoogleTest
• Help Generator – Generates HTML Help topic files and screenshots of your application.
• Koders – Adds a search plug-in to search the Koders database
• PhatStudio – File navigation within a Visual Studio solution by typing partial filenames, and header switch
• Reflector - a code browsing utility
• ReSharper - Refactoring support for .NET languages
• Software Diagnostics Developer Edition - an integrated recorder, debugger and profiler for system dynamics
• T4 Editor - add-in for editing T4 templates with syntax highlighting, intellisense and code outlining
• TracExplorer - Trac integration for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008
• Visual Assist - Refactoring and code navigation support for native C++ and .NET (VC6/VS2003/VS2005/VS2008/VS2010)
• VisualSVN - Subversion integration for Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008/2010.
• VS Anywhere – Enable Remote Pair Programming and Real Time Collaboration in Visual Studio 2010/2011, able to share Projects and replicate Structural changes real-time ,skype integration.
• VSCommands - Provides several IDE enhancements and features such as group/ungroup items or 'locate in solution explorer'
• VsTortoise - A free TortoiseSVN add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010
• HgSccPackage - Mercurial Source Control Plugin for Visual Studio 2008/2010
• VisualHG - Mercurial Source Control Plugin for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010
• XMLSpy – Integrates the XMLSpy IDE into Visual Studio
• Bugnet Explorer Suite - Integrates Bugnet Issue and Project Management into Visual Studio and SVN
• Tabs Studio - Provides multiple tab rows and customizable tab grouping. ( 30 day free trial)
• SharpSort – C# source code members sorting and grouping
• UModel - Integrates support for all 14 UML diagram types and code engineering functionality directly in Visual Studio. (VS2005/VS2008/VS2010)
• WinGDB – Debug with GDB directly from Visual Studio. Remote Linux (via SSH), MinGW. Cygwin, embedded systems.
• Qt Visual Studio Add-in - Qt support in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010.
• GhostDoc - free Visual Studio extension that automatically generates XML documentation comments for methods and properties based on their type, parameters, name, and other contextual information.
• AXtools CodeSmart Provides a large amount of IDE enhancements and features for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 ( 30 day free trial)
• RockScroll - extends the scrollbar in Visual Studio to show a syntax highlighted thumbnail view of your source. For Visual Studio 2005/2008.
• QuickUnit C# & VB.NET Unit Test Designer - Allows developers to easily design, generate and validate high-quality Unit Tests. Supports Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 (free 30-day trial).
• metalscroll - an alternative for RockScroll, a Visual Studio add-in which replaces the editor scrollbar with a graphic representation of the code. Compared to the original, this version has a number of improvements.
• TranSolution - Simplifies localization, the process of translating .NET solutions into foreign languages for international markets.
• GTalk Add In - A Google Talk Client inside visual studio
• VsVim - Free Vim emulator plugin for Visual Studio 2010
• Windows 7 Jump List Support for Visual Studio 2008 - Free and open source add-in that adds the Windows 7 Jump List to Visual Studio 2008
• Gemini - Gemini issue tracking plugin for Visual Studio 2008/2010
• CodeIt.Right combines static code analysis and automatic refactoring in one application. CodeIt.Right is productivity add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, 2005 and 2003.

Language add-ins

• Ada programming language
• Boo programming language
• Eiffel programming language
• F# programming language
• HLSL, GLSL and Cg via NShader
• Oxygene programming language
• Python Tools for Visual Studio via PyTools
• Phalanger, for building ASP.NET applications using PHP
• VS.Php, for building PHP applications via VS.Php
• ActionScript 3, for building Flash applications via CodeDrive
• IronPython Studio, IronPython IDE for Visual Studio 2008, available with source code at CodePlex
• nFringe - a Visual Studio plug-in for UnrealScript developed by Pixel Mine

Other

• XNA Game Studio A framework to easily make games using Visual C#
• BREW Mobile Platform (BREWMP) Project Wizard and Compilation Toolbar The BREWMP Platform SDK which includes a Visual Studio 2008 add-in. There is a project wizard for creating BREWMP projects and a small toolbar for compiling for different hardware platforms.
• Pronexus' VBVoice™ - a rapid application development (RAD) Interactive Voice Response (IVR) toolkit for telephony and speech inside Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.
• BlueSSIS - a suite of controls for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.
• Voice Elements - a .NET development toolkit for building automated telephony applications.
• Visual Guard A solution to add application-level permissions, authentication and audit to .NET applications.
• MPCL Enable/Disable parallel compilation for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2008.