Essential Visual Studio Add-ins

bdi · Nobody Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 1646 Location: Chicago

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/12/VisualStudioAddins/default.aspx

Found several of these to look really useful.

Eric · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:44 am Post subject:

I'll have to check into those. I already use 2 of them (CopySourceAsHTML and SmartPaster). I want to try out the refactoring plugin for VS 2005 (free for VB).

bdi · Nobody Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 1646 Location: Chicago

I was excited to see the codekeep one, but it doesn't have 2005 support yet. TestDriven.NET looks pretty cool. It works with NUnit and several other unit test frameworks, and seems pretty cool. Being that unit testing is one of the main features advertised in Team editions, I'm happy to see it.

I installed Refactor also, it seems ok but my test code just isn't long enough to give an adequate assessment.

PInvoke looks to replace the old API tool. That's pretty cool. I found the website though but didn't find the add-in to download.

GhostDoc would be cool if it was made for VB.NET. That support is listed as experimental though.

Not sure I'm ready for many of the other ones just yet though. A little lost on what some of them are for.