List of Microsoft Visual Studio add-ins
The following is a list of notable 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. Managed add-ins are typically found in the following location on Windows Vista and higher: C:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio \Addins. COM-based add-ins can be installed anywhere as their directories are specified via the registry.
IDE add-ins
Refactoring and productivity
- Visual Assist X - Productivity plugin, like Resharper. Notable for C++ support
Other
- PVS-Studio - Static Code Analyzer for C#,C,C++,C++11,C++/CX. Supports Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012/2013/2015/2017.
- Designbox - Adds a toolbox that lets you associate initial property values with controls
- Koders – Adds a search plug-in to search the Koders database
- Reflector - a code browsing utility
- Dotfuscator – Provides tools to help prevent reverse engineering
- VSdocman - Visual Studio code commenter and API documentation generator. For VS 2010/2008/2005/2003/2002.
- XMLSpy – Integrates the XMLSpy IDE into Visual Studio for editing XML, XSLT, XSD, XQuery, XBRL, OOXML, etc.
- Liquid XML Studio – Integrates Liquid XML Tools: XML Schema Editor, WSDL Editor, XPath Expression Builder, and Web Services Test Client into Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010
- AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
Language add-ins
- Ada programming language
- ActionScript 3, for building Flash applications
- Boo programming language
- Eiffel programming language
- F# programming language
- Oxygene programming language
- Python Tools for Visual Studio
- PHP Tools for Visual Studio