This past weekend I presented at Twin Cities Code Camp. You can read details about the two sessions here and here. While I was talking and writing code I mentioned several Visual Studio 2010 extensions that I have become heavily reliant upon. Several people asked me to provide details and links for each of the extensions I talked about, so here you go:

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010

PowerCommands is a set of useful extensions that add additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. Additional features include: format document on save, remove and sort usings on save, clear all panes, copy path, email code snippet, insert guid attribute, show all files, undo close, collapse projects, copy class, paste class, copy references, past references, copy as project reference, edit project file, open containing folder, open command prompt, unload projects, reload projects, remove and sort usings, extract constant, and clear recent file list.

You can download the PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010 extension here.

Productivity Power Tools

Production Power Tools are a set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity. Features include, options support, solution navigator (think solution explorer on steroids), quick access, auto brace completion, tab well UI, searchable add references dialog, highlight current line, html copy, triple click, fixed mixed tabs, ctrl + click go to definition, align assignments, move line up/down commands, and column guides.

You can download the Productivity Power Tools extension here.

Snippet Designer

Snippet Designer is an open source plugin which enhances the Visual Studio IDE to allow richer and more productive code snippet experience. Features include a snippet editor integrated inside of the IDE, a snippet explorer tool window to search snippets on your computer, and a right click “Export as Snippet” menu option added to C#, VB, and XML code editors to send highlighted code directory to the snippet editor.

You can download the Snippet Designer extension here.