What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

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Published Friday, April 23, 2004 10:33 PM by RoyOsherove
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Friday, April 23, 2004 11:35 AM by TrackBack

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 12:27 AM by Clint

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

My suggestion:
Name: Code Highlighter/Formatter
Description: Let's say you're programming, and you know you are writing some test code, something that you know will need to be changed, something that should be deleted eventually, etc... Well it would be cool if there was an add-in where you could define different code highlight/format categories like Test Code, Debug Code, Temp Code and then assign them each a different color, font type, or font format (bold, italics, etc). You would just highlight some code, right click, and pick from the menu Code Highlighter>Test Code and then it would change all the highlighted code to that specific font color/format. Then you'd never forget about the code because it would be obvious if it is in a different format than normal code. I make this mistake to often where I put a comment by some test code or temp code to remove it but then forget to until weeks later, if ever.
Saturday, April 24, 2004 3:42 PM by Steve Hiner

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

I'd love to code this myself but I know from past experience that I won't take the time to do it, especially considering it's not really useful.

Name: Runtime Visualizer
Description: Piture the visualizers in Windows Media Player but for code. You could base the visualizer changes on attributes of the code like the WMP visualizers use frequency and volumn. The visualizer could respond to things like allocation frequency, total memory allocated, GC frequency, number of local variables, etc.
Monday, April 26, 2004 5:05 AM by ABO

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

How about something that monitors build time, stores it and allows me to view the build time over time.

These statistics could be used to:
* ask the boss for an hardware upgrade :)
* Watch how the build time increases over time
Monday, April 26, 2004 7:28 AM by Roy Osherove

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

Allow me to chat with a coleague of mine from inside VS.Net, including shared code editing.
Monday, April 26, 2004 7:28 AM by Roy Osherove

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

Export my pre and post build events to an MSBuild/NAnt project
Monday, April 26, 2004 7:29 AM by Roy Osherove

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

"Blog This Code" functionality
Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:57 AM by Adrian Cockburn

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

I'd like to see an XPath Visualizer included for viewing xml files. Currently when viewing xml files you see tabs for Xml and Data, an extra tab for XPath where i could query the xml document would be nice :)
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:59 PM by Eric

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

Adrian,
Could you send me an email so that we can "chat" about this?

Thanks,

Eric

eric_brunsen@msn.com
Friday, April 30, 2004 6:39 PM by HumanCompiler

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

I'd like to see a TabletPC plug-in (don't have time to do it myself or figure out how), so you can have written notes, diagrams, etc drawn up attached to either particular files in the project or individual lines of code.
Saturday, May 01, 2004 1:34 AM by Tony Schreiner

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

How about creating a language service using the VSIP SDK to support common file types that VS forgot. For example:
- .ini / .inf / .inx
- .reg
- .adm
- .cmd
- makefile

Simple syntax highlighting would be great, and shouldn't be too difficult. More advanced features could include telling you what section you are in in an .inf or .adm, automatic indenting, cross-referencing "variables", and basic syntax error checking.

I'd write this myself, but emacs already has it. Please help me switch! :)
Saturday, May 01, 2004 8:18 AM by flipdoubt

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

I would like to see an add-in that would let me manage the assembly version numbers across all projects within a solution. It could be one of those dockable content things that would contain a table listing all the projects within a solution, their current versions, whether they are auto-incrementing etc. When we edit them in this interface, it could change them in the AssemblyInfo.cs file. I would write it myself, but I still can't get my head around plugIns.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004 2:14 PM by Darrell

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

An addin that removes unnecessary "using" or "Imports" statements!
Friday, May 07, 2004 1:26 PM by TrackBack

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6:16 PM by PerS

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

An addin that converts existing xml comments to Doxygen comments (http://www.doxygen.org). I really hate the xml comments, they creats too much "noice" :-)
Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:07 AM by Robert

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

Have an Regular Expression Editor integrated with VS.NET so it`s easy to write expressions and test them and paste it into the Code Editor.
Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:23 AM by Neal

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

I would like to see an addin/component that would give you easy design time binding support for ILists/IBindingLists, similar to DataSets. You would first add a component to the project which ould then scan the cuurent project for classes that implement ILists. it would then add the nessaerry code so that when you could then add an dataSet style component to your form and it would show the ILists classes in the DataSource/DataMember dropdowns.
Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:14 AM by Paul C

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

Right-click on a function or sub and get a list of the functions and subs that call it. Similar to what the MZ-Tools add-in for VB6 does.
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:04 AM by Rory Becker

# re: What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?

I'd like to see an inheritance tree view addin

in which a class would expand and show its derivatives underneath.

The user should be able to create classes in this tree which would inherit from their parent node.

The User should, (where source code is available) be able to drag nodes around and change the inheritance tree of the classes involved.