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What are in your opinion the "must have" Visual Studio 2010 extensions?

OData Protocol Visualizer is fine

Solid Softfare Xplorer isn't free, but looks very nice

Just tried NuGet Tools and it's GREAT

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Resharper 5.0 is the one I must have. Some others are nice to have as well.

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I like the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools.

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Mine are

• PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010 offer so much...
• Triple Click - Select line with Triple Click
• StructureAdornment - Show scope of code
• Go To Definition And Them Editor - As mentioned by Noah

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Matt's Visual Studio Color Theme Editor is proving to be really popular (over 10,000 downloads as of 4/18/10).

I've written a couple that are popular; Go To Definition is one of the most popular. If you do a search for my name ("Noah Richards"), you'll find some of the others (triple click to select whole lines, italicize comments, spell checking for strings and comments, and about 7 others).

There's at least one other spell check extension on the gallery, the HTML Spell Checker. It's more mature than the one I wrote but requires Office to work.

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I love the Win7 Taskbar Extension, especiall when working with multiple solutions.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0c92dd87-50ac-489e-882b-b99de7624502

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I have found the snippets to be useful for various tasks along the way, and so this is a good way to smooth out the maintenance of such snippets:

Snippet Designer

Description Adapted from the website:

• A Snippet editor integrated inside of the IDE.
  • Opening any .snippet file
  • Uses the native Visual Studio code editor
  • Mark replacements with a convenient right click menu.
  • Snippet properties inside the Visual Studio properties window.
• A Snippet Explorer tool
  • A right Click "Export as Snippet" menu option added to C#, VB and XML code editor to send highlighted code directly to the Snippet Editor

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When using SVN

Visual SVN

saves a lot of time and it is very handy.

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Can I put a plug in for my own extension? :)

PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension - Add PowerShell support to VS2010

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I use these extensions:

• Productivity Power Tools
• Autoscroller

The first one has a lot of options, just enable the options you like. I liked the 'close selected tab' icon on the right corner in Visual studio 2008. You can enable that icon again with this extension. I also like the option to 'pin' tabs.

The autoscroller enables the scrolling in the main window, its also called 'middle-click scrolling'. I missed taht from VS 2008 as well.

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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is a must have for WPF developers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eff8a0da-0a4d-48e8-8366-6ddf2ecad801&displaylang=en

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Refactor is a must-have for me. CodeRush is also nice, though one of these years I need to seriously compare it to Resharper. I think most people stick with whichever they first use, as they both take a lot of time to learn.

http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/Visual_Studio_Add-in/

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Update As pointed out below by Jonathan Allen, this functionality already exists in Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools. Adding this extension, then, would be redundant if you already have that.

There are many ways to solve the posting of formatted code, but I liked the integrated nature of this extension and how you can tweak the resulting HTML:

Code4Blog

Description From Linked Page:

Code4Blog is a Visual Studio 2010 extension that allows to convert any code supported by Visual Studio IDE to HTML format with the same structure and colors. Main purpose of this extension is to prepare a code snippet to be published in rich documents, for example in blog posts, Microsoft Word documents or Help files. Some additional styling could be applied: max width and height of the code block, custom background (per code line), font family and font size, line numbering and others.

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I'm using Visual Nunit which is rather nice if you don't have the money to stump up for something like ReSharper. It's only feature (as far as I'm aware) is to allow running nunit tests from within the IDE, which is nice becuase it means you don't have to revert to Nunit GUI every time you want to run some of your unit tests. Also seems pretty stable as of version 1.1.7.

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I find the following useful

If you use TFS for ALM Management Search Work Items for TFS 2010

VS10x Code Map is great for visually navigating classes

SpecFlow for mapping User Stories/Features to automated tests in a way that is readable by steak holders or team members without coding knowledge (Behaviour Driven Development)

And a Spell Checker for strings/comments is always good

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I'm also going to plug my own extension - VSFileNav used for quickly finding a file in your solution using wildcards, camel case searches etc.

I developed it because there wasn't anything free (and good - SonicFileFinder was too slow) and used it many times every day.