Visual Studio 2008/2010 version of the Eclipse IDE "Close Editors Automatically" feature. This addin closes the least recently used editor window automatically when the configured maximum number of editor windows is exceeded.

Gives you the power of C++ at a cost of the simplicity of C#.

Document Session Manager is a Visual Studio 2008 addin for saving and restoring the list of opened documents (xml files, source files, winforms, etc.) inside the IDE.

A simple code syntax highlighter to change the colors of classes, structs, macros, etc in the Visual C++ 2010 IDE. It is implemented as a Visual Studio 2010 Extension, and uses the new Intellisense database that gets created for VC++ solutions. Also supports HLSL GLSL syntax.

Visual Studio add-in for sorting imports/using blocks

Mvp.Xml project is developed by Microsoft MVPs in XML technologies and XML Web Services worldwide. It is aimed at supplementing .NET framework XML processing functionality available through the System.Xml namespace and related namespaces such as System.Web.Services. It is documented extensively through weblog posts. All the project's classes contain extensive tests to ensure its quality, as well as the peer review among this highly focused group of XML lovers. Mvp.Xml project currently provides .NET implementations of EXSLT, XML Base, XInclude, XPointer as well as a unique set of utility classes and tools making XML programming in .NET platform easier, more productive and effective. Mvp.Xml project supplements .NET functionality, but as .NET platform evolves some parts of the Mvp.Xml library become redundant. Beware that we will be dropping support for anything that become supported natively in .NET. Mvp.Xml project supports both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0. While both codebases have much in common, they are different codebases. Mvp.Xml for .NET 1.1 is mostly frozen, while Mvp.Xml for .NET 2.0 is under active development.

NUnitForVS is a NUnit integration in Visual Studio 2008. Compared to other NUnit runners for Visual Studio that allow you to just run the tests, NUnitForVS integrates NUnit tests in Visual Studio Unit Test Runtime. This allows you to run your tests along with other tests (ex. VSUnit, TestComplete etc.) during TFS integration builds and publish the results on Team Foundation Server. It also supports Code Coverage feature of Visual Studio.

The Power Toy Pack Installer is your one-stop download utility for all things power toys. Get latest releases and updates from just a single executable.

Resource Refactoring Tool is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard or above that allows developers to refactor string literals in to resource files directly from the code window.

The current Sandcastle release isn't very user friendly. Capturing all the functionality in a Visual Studio 2005 Add-In makes more sense.

Snippet Designer is a Visual Studio plug in which allows you to create, edit and search for snippets inside the IDE.

The Source Outliner PowerToy provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them inside the editor. Source Outliner enables you to perform the following tasks: • Navigate a C# or Visual Basic source file in a tree view. • Navigate to an item via the keyboard or the mouse. • Filter the tree based on the code element name. • Filter the tree based on the code element type.

TytanNET is an extension for Visual Studio providing a set of useful toolwindows, refactoring methods, debugging-time visualizers and special data insertion/edition inside current code windows. It will reduce your coding effort in number of places today!

VSCmdShell provides users with a shell window inside Visual Studio IDE that can be used for Visual Studio commands as well. Current version allows user to use either Windows Command Shell or Windows PowerShell.

Visual Studio addin to manage multiple window layouts within Visual Studio 2003 and 2005.

WsdlWorks is a web service test tool integrated into Visual Studio. Simply create a new WsdlWorks project, enter your web service's WSDL URL and WsdlWorks will automatically create tests for all your operations including example SOAP requests.