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.

IDE add-ins

*AnkhSVN – Provides a Subversion client for Visual Studio
*Dotfuscator – Provides tools to help prevent reverse engineering [http://www.preemptive.com]
*Koda (software) Free add-in with some nice enhancements for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. [http://www.codeplex.com/koda]
*Koders – Adds a search plug-in to search the Koders database [http://www.koders.com/info.aspx?c=tools]
*ReSharper [http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/]
*Sparx Systems's MDG Integration [http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/mdg_integrate.html]
*Unified SCC - Universal source control integration plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio [http://aigenta.com/products/UnifiedScc.aspx]
*VisualSVN - Subversion integration for Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008. [http://www.visualsvn.com/]
*XMLSpy – Integrates the XMLSpy integrated development environment into Microsoft Visual Studio [http://www.altova.com/features_visualstudio.html]
*.netSavant – Generates high performance ADO.NET code for Visual Studio 2005/2008 [http://www.dotnetsavant.com]
*NMate, for NUnit and MbUnit Integration & TDD Code Generation. Works with Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 [http://nmate.dyndns.biz]
*Aggiorno ASP.Net refactoring tool and best practices assistant [http://www.aggiorno.com/]
*PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 [http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands]
*CodeCommen.NET for Visual Studio 2005/2008 [http://www.codeplex.com/CodeComment]
*TracExplorer - Trac integration for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Language add-ins

*Oxygene programming language
*Eiffel programming language
*Ada programming language
*Phalanger, for building ASP.NET applications using PHP.

Other

XNA Game Studio A framework to easily make games for Visual C# [http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionID=c1f34e92-7b2f-420a-bc03-df5c2c50f002]
*MPCL. A FREE plug-in for compiling in parallel .cpp files from the same project with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 and Dual / Quad / Multi core CPUs [http://www.todobits.es/mpcl.html]

External links

* [http://www.visualstudiogallery.com Official site for Visual Studio Extensions (http://www.visualstudiogallery.com)] .
* James Avery (December 2005). [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/12/VisualStudioAddins/ "Ten Essential Tools: Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now"] . "MSDN Magazine".
* Mike Gold (July 10, 2002). [http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/AddIns11292005015631AM/AddIns.aspx " Tutorial: Creating Visual Studio Add-Ins"] . "C# Corner".