Category: Visual Studio

Addon for visual studio 2017, lets you preview config file transformations.
New command in right click menu in solution explorer.

Source: ConfigTransformation – Visual Studio Marketplace

Use this addon for VS 2017:

Source: Shrink Empty Lines – Visual Studio Marketplace

Shrinks empty line height in code editor by 25% to be able to see more lines of codes at a glance.

Read more:
https://visualstudioextensions.vlasovstudio.com/2014/06/04/see-more-lines-of-code-with-syntactic-line-compression/

Great tool for attaching VS 2017 debug to IIS for instance.

It will add some menu options under the Tools menu.
After installing this addon its possible set a keyboard shortcut by searching for “tools.attach” in the VS keyboard shortcut window.

Source: Attach To All The Things – Visual Studio Marketplace

Great small extension for the following functionality:

• Select 2 files in Solution Explorer, right click and new menu option at the top “Compare files”.
• Right click solution or a project, new menu option at the top “Edit Solution/Project file”
• Locate File in Solution Explorer / Source Control explorer (right click menu on tab in code edit window)

Source: Visual Studio Toolkit – Visual Studio Marketplace

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=IstvanPasztor.VisualStudioWindowTitleChanger

Changes the Visual Studio Window Title by evaluating a user defined expression. Extremely helpful when working with multiple branches of the same project.

Script I use to see current branch in TFS (path) or GIT (git branch) in title:

if( sln_open ) {
if (exec git_branch 2 "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD" sln_dir) {
//GIT
sln_filename + (exec git_branch 2 "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD" sln_dir ? " - git["+git_branch+"]" + " - Visual Studio 2015")
} 
else 
{ 
//TFS or Standard project
sln_filename + " - (" + sln_dir +")" + " - " + "Visual Studio 2015"
} 
}
else {
//No solution open
"Visual Studio 2015"
}