20 free add-ons for Visual Studio

Some time ago a similar post was already published, since then the number of add-ons for Visual Studio 2010,2012 and 2013 has crossed the bar to 4k, many new additions have appeared. Listed below are the 20 most popular or interesting extensions for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 in addition to the previous post.

01: Array Visualizer

Debugger visualizer for arrays. In various views, you can take a look at how an array of data looks like. It supports dimensions up to 4 and various types of data formatting in the form of graphs - histograms, splines, lines, etc.

02: Cobisi Routing Assistant

The editor of routing for ASP.NET MVC web projects. Declarative routing registration, routing editor and other very necessary things for the development of the structure of the website on the MVC technology

03: CodeMaid

Many utilities for working with code, including formatting, code cleaning, navigation, convolution, search, and many other useful things. For example:

Removing unused scopes
Sorting scopes
Adding implicit access modifiers
Adding blank lines for easy formatting
Remove blank lines between linked parentheses
Run VS Format
Delete consecutive blank lines
Remove empty spaces at the end of lines
Update #endregion closing tag

04: Disable No Source Available Tab

Turns off the “No Source Available” window when debugging.

05: I Hate #Regions

Automatic convolution / expansion of regions by opening a file, reworked representation of regions in the editor:

06: Microsoft Code Digger

Analyzer of possible ways of application execution for the subsequent analysis of this information. Allows you to more fully understand the behavior of the program. Indispensable in the "hunt" for hard-to-manifest bugs, exceptional situations, asserts.

07: Modern UI for WPF Templates

A set of ready-made templates for WPF. Something like bootstrap for WPF.

08: Multilingual App Toolkit

A set of tools for localizing applications.

09: PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio

Powershell Editor for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. IntelliSence, syntax coloring, formatting, code navigation, debugging (for now, as I understand it, at the breakpoint support level)

10: QuickLaunchCommands

Adds additional area filters to QuiclLaunch and searches for available commands in the current context.
For example, by setting QuiclLaunchCommands, and shifting the focus to the error list window, you can search (CTRL + Q) the “go to next error” command and you will be prompted that this is actually the CTRL-SHIFT-F12 key combination.

11: Review Assistant - Code Review Tool

Code Review Toolkit. Many additional features compared to the standard features of Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, but also supported by Visual Studio 2010.

12: Sample Browser Visual Studio Extension

Example Navigator from MSDN and Platform SDK built right into Visual Studio:

13: SlowCheetah - XML Transforms

Transformer of various web, app, etc. config in order to, depending on certain conditions (debug / release / platform), convert them into the required format or insert the necessary content. For example, change connectionString for release.