Third Shelf

I present to you a list of essential add-ins for Visual Studio 2008. I have found these add-ins very handy and I hope that they will help you improve your productivity as well.

1. Power Commands Adds additional functionality to the IDE, which includes, collapsing the projects in a loaded solution, open command prompt where the highlighted project resides and the ability to remove and sort the using clauses.
2. GhostDoc 2008 Automatically generates XML comments either by inheriting the comments from a base class or interface. It is also able to infer comments from method names and properties.
3. Regionerate Lets you apply layout rules for regions and code, based on a highly customizable configuration file.
4. Mvp.Xml XPathMania lets you write XPath queries against an XML document that is currently open in the Visual Studio IDE.

Note: This is by no means the ultimate list of add-ins for Visual Studio, but is merely the ones that I personally use on a day-to-day basis.