A set of extension packs to create the ultimate Visual Studio editor experience. These are the extensions that I've found most useful in my day-to-day development.
Requires Visual Studio 2017 Update 8 or newer.
Each extension pack in Essential Extensions has a different focus.
An extension pack to improve the core Visual Studio editing experience.
A lot of these extensions are also bundled as part of Web Essentials. I chose to split them out separately since they weren't specific to web development.
Download the extension at the Visual Studio Marketplace or get the nightly build. See the changelog for changes and roadmap.
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- Add New File
- Comment Remover
- Dummy Text Generator
- Editor Enhancements
- Editor Guidelines
- EditorConfig Language Service
- Error Catcher II
- File Icons
- File Nesting
- Insert Guid
- License Header Manager
- Markdown Editor
- Microsoft Code Analysis 2017
- Microsoft Code Analysis 2019
- Multi Edit Mode (Visual Studio 2017)
- Open Command Line
- Output Enhancer
- Pretty Paste
- Productivity Power Tools
- Reset Tool Windows
- Show Selection Length
- Source Server Browser Power Tool
- SVG Viewer
- Syntax Higlighting Pack
- Trailing Whitespace Visualizer
- Tweaks
- Visual Studio IntelliCode
- Visual Studio Spell Checker
An extension pack to improve the Visual Studio editing experience for web development.
Some of these extensions are also bundled as part of Web Essentials. I chose to split them out separately since they were specific to web development while others in that extension were not.
Download the extension at the Visual Studio Marketplace or get the nightly build. See the changelog for changes and roadmap.
- Browser Reload on Save
- Browser Sync
- Bundler & Minifier
- CSS AutoPrefixer
- CSS Sorter
- CSS Tools 2019 (Visual Studio 2019)
- CSS Tools (Visual Studio 2017)
- Editor Enhancements
- Glyphfriend 2019
- HTML Tools 2019 (Visual Studio 2019)
- HTML Tools (Visual Studio 2017)
- Image Optimizer
- Image Sprites
- Inline Color Picker
- JavaScript Prettier
- Package Installer
- Package Security Alerts
- SVG Viewer
- TypeScript Definition Generator
- Web Accessibility Checker
- Web Compiler
- ZenCoding
An extension pack to improve the Visual Studio experience for development using GitHub as the source control system.
Download the extension at the Visual Studio Marketplace or get the nightly build. See the changelog for changes and roadmap.
For issues with specific extensions, please submit an issue with that extension, not here.
If you know of any good extensions that you think would benefit developers, submit an issue.
Check out the contribution guidelines if you want to contribute to this project.
For cloning and building this project yourself, make sure to install the Extensibility Tools extension for Visual Studio which enables some features used by this project.