This page is a curated list of awesome things for Visual Studio (the full-blown IDE, not VS Code) by Microsoft. Moreover, this page also includes some items relevant for Windows developers.
- Visual Studio website - Microsoft website of Visual Studio.
- VSIX Gallery - Gallery containing Visual Studio Extensions.
- Visual Studio Marketplace - Successor to Visual Studio Gallery with content for Visual Studio, VS Code, VS Team Services.
- Visual Studio Gallery - (Old) Gallery for Visual Studio Content.
- GitHub - GitHub integration for Visual Studio.
- Web Essentials - Tools for web development (CSS, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Less, ...).
- Syntax Highlighting Pack - Syntax highlighting for many more languages.
- Open Command Line - Easily open CMD or PowerShell from within Visual Studio.
- Multi Edit Mode - Adds multiple cursors to Visual Studio.
- CodeMaid - Plug-in for clean-up and simplification of many code tasks in C++, C#, and many other languages.
- Productivity Power Tools - Many language-agnostic productivity tools.
- CodeAlignment - Language-agnostic plug-in that vertically aligns code, e.g. on
=signs or even customizable regular expressions. - Roaming Extension Manager - Stores your installed extensions in the cloud and synchronizes them across your machines for a uniform experience.
- Keyboard Shortcut Exporter - Exports your keyboard shortcuts to XML.
- Child Process Debugging Power Tool - Extension that also instruct Visual Studio to automatically attach to child processes.
- ReAttach - Easy way to re-attach to previous debug targets.
- Indent Guides - Adds indentation guides to the code editor to easily visualize the level of indentation.
- RevDeBug Prompter - Lightweight debugging aid for C#.
- MSDN - The Visual Studio landing page on Microsoft's Developer Network.
- VisualStudio docs - GitHub repo with the documentation for the upcoming VS2017RC.
- Visual Studio Shortcuts - Overview of keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio 2012 to 2017 organized by version.
- Windows Dev Center - Microsoft landing page for developers.
- Channel9: Visual Studio - Visual Studio content on Microsoft's Video Channel 9.
- Windows development videos - Videos covering Windows development
- Microsoft Virtual Academy - Microsoft's online course material.
- Twitter: @visualstudio - Visual Studio Twitter account.
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Visual Studio Magazine - Online/Offline magazine covering Visual Studio.
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Visual Studio Blog - Microsoft Visual Studio blog.
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Visual C++ Team Blog - Microsoft Visual C++ Team Blog.
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Visual Studio Team Services - Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services blog.
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Mads Kristensen's blog - Blog by a prolific Visual Studio extension developer.