Remember Visual Studio 2010? Visual Studio 2010 had a couple of Power Tools available that provided you some productivity options that made life within Visual Studio just a little bit better. Some of the tools ended up in the next version (2012) such as the Find option, Solution Navigator and the References Dialog.
With Visual Studio we lost some of the options available in the 2010 version. Personally I really liked the Enhanced Scrollbar feature showin a little outline of your source document where you immediately could identify where issues are located in the code.
But now it’s back! Microsoft deployed a Visual Studio 2012 (November) edition to the Visual Studio Gallery:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/3a96a4dc-ba9c-4589-92c5-640e07332afd
Visual Studio 2012 (November) edition features:
New additions for Visual Studio 2012
- Quick Tasks
- Power Commands
- Color Printing
In Addition to
- Enhanced Scrollbar
- Middle-Click Scrolling
- Organize Imports for Visual Basic
- Custom Document Well
- Tools Options Support
- Auto Brace Completion
- HTML Copy
- Fix Mixed Tabs
- Ctrl + Click Go To Definition
- Align Assignments
- Move Line Up/Down Commands
- Column Guides
- Colorized Parameter Help
Go to the Visual Studio Gallery (Tools/Extensions and Updates and search Online for “Productivity Power Tools”) and try it.
For more information on each of the features and a full description go to the Visual Studio Gallery page and read all about it:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/3a96a4dc-ba9c-4589-92c5-640e07332afd
Do you know more great tools our readers should know about? Leave a comment!
Have fun!