Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Downl

ast year I wrote an article called ".NET Tools: Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now" that highlighted 10 freely available tools for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This year I am again creating a list of must-have tools, but this time I'm focusing on Visual Studio add-ins as opposed to standalone tools. Visual Studio provides a rich extensibility model that developers at Microsoft and in the community have taken advantage of to provide a host of quality add-ins. Some add-ins contribute significant how-did-I-live-without-this functionality, while others just help you automate that small redundant task you constantly find yourself performing.

10 Must-Have Add-Ins TestDriven.NET

GhostDoc

Paster

CodeKeep

PInvoke.NET

VSWindowManager PowerToy

WSContractFirst