Visual Studio Extensions project is a collection of IDE Enhancements for Visual Studio 2005 that make you more productive. These enhancements are released as Microsoft Shared Source to provide sample code to real-world solutions and allow for collaborative-development. The Visual Studio extensions listed below are designed to make you more productive. These enhancements are directly integrated into the Visual Studio IDE.
If you are interested in contributing to these projects or build your own Visual Studio extensions, you can download the Visual Studio 2005 SDK from
here to get started.
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003, Windows XP.
- Supported Visual Studio 2005 released (RTM) tool sets: Visual Studio Standard Edition, Visual Studio Professional Edition, Visual Studio Team System Editions.
Source Code OutlinerThe Source Outliner tool is a Visual Studio extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them inside the editor.
Flat Solution ExplorerThe Flat Solution Explorer is a Visual Studio Add-in that gives you a flat view list of all the items in your solution.
Resource Refactoring ToolThe Resource Refactoring Tool allows you to easily extract hard coded strings from code and move them to resource files.
NUnit for VS 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers and Team SuiteThis is a Visual Studio add-in that allows VS 2005 Team System to run NUnit tests like the unit tests integrated inside Visual Studio.
VSWindowManagerA convenient add-in that helps you manage your window layouts.
TFS Quick SearchAn add-in that allows the user to search multiple fields for TFS work items.
DB Connection VisualizerThis is a debugger visualizer for VS 2005. It gives you a quick way to run a SQL statement against a database connection and view the results in a grid view while debugging code.
