Visual Studio 2015 Extensions You Might Find Useful

Re:Visual Studio 2015 Extensions You Might Find Useful by Stratoscope on Sunday October 02, 2016 @03:02PM (#12623711)

Here are a few more that I use:

EditorConfig - Reads your .editorconfig files and applies their settings.

Markdown Editor - Edit Markdown with live preview.

Smooth Scrolling - Use smooth scrolling instead of jumpy scrolling, nice for two-finger touchpad scrolling. There are also two different extensions named "Smooth Scroll" (no "ing") that do similar things. I've had one or another of these work better depending on the machine.

Strip'em - Force consistent newlines when files are saved. (Note this is not in the extension gallery, you have to get it from the developer's site.)

TabSanity - For projects that insist on spaces for indentation, makes the left and right arrow keys jump a full indent level instead of one space.

Text Macros for Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015 - Adds some of the keyboard macro support that went AWOL some years ago.

And of course things like ReSharper or Visual Assist, plus language specific extensions like HLSL Tools, PowerShell Tools, Python Tools, etc.

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Re:Visual Studio 2015 Extensions You Might Find Useful by retro64 on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:49AM (#12627766)

>TabSanity - For projects that insist on spaces for indentation, makes the left and right arrow keys jump a full indent level instead of one space.

Hold your control key down while hitting right/left arrow. This will jump to the beginning or end of the next word (effectively skipping the tab/spaces).

Now you can remove an extension! :) 

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Re:Visual Studio 2015 Extensions You Might Find Useful by Stratoscope on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:42PM (#12628988)

Thanks. I do use ctrl+left/right all the time, along with their friends ctrl+shift+left/right. The Home key is also handy since it toggles between the beginning of the line and the first non-whitespace character on the line.

I still like TabSanity, though. Perhaps it's because I use tabs in all my own projects and I like the way the left-right keys move one indent at a time. So having those keys work the same way with space indentation has a certain comfort to it.

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Re:Visual Studio 2015 Extensions You Might Find Useful by RossBencina on Monday October 03, 2016 @06:34AM (#12626359)

+1 for EditorConfig

Free ones I also use:

Trailing Whitespace Visualiser -- marks trailing whitespace in red and can automatically strip it on save.

Editor Guidelines -- Fixed vertical column guides

ArrayPlotter -- plot data in arrays on a x/y graph

cppcheck add-in -- run cppcheck from within MSVC

And Visual Assist of course.

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Re:Visual Studio 2015 Extensions You Might Find Useful by Stratoscope on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:43PM (#12628996)

Thanks, a few of those are new to me - I will check them out!

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