Visual Studio For Mac Productivity Power Tools

Last month about the – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some really nice additional functionality. The initial Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools release included a bunch of really useful productivity enhancements – including a much faster “Add Reference” dialog, lots of code editor additions and enhancements, and some nice IDE improvements around document tab management. You can learn more about these features in my.

VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Update Yesterday we shipped an update to the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools which adds some nice new features and enhancements. If you already have the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools installed, you can update it to the latest release by choosing Visual Studio’s “Tools->Extension Manager” menu command. This will bring up the VS 2010 Extension Manager – which allows you to browse and download new extensions. If you click the “Updates” tab on the left-hand side of the dialog it also allows you to see any updates that are available for extensions you already have installed within your IDE. Simply click the “Update” button for the Productivity Power Tools extension and it will download and install an update for it: If you don’t already have the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools installed, you can download and install it. Sean has a that describes all of this week’s productivity power tool updates and additions.

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2015 still has the vertical tabs feature. Access it by selecting Tools > Options > Productivity Power. Microsoft today announced the release of Visual Studio 2019 Preview for PC and Mac. Visual Studio 2019 is now faster, more reliable, more productive for individuals and teams, easier to.

Below are a few of the highlights: Tools Options Support The top feature request with the productivity power tools has been to have the ability to turn on/off individual features and extensions it provides. With last month’s release you couldn’t easily turn individual features on and off. Starting with this week’s update you can use Tools->Options within VS 2010, and use a new Productivity Power Tools section to easily enable/disable each feature individually: In addition to enabling/disabling individual features, you can also tweak/edit their settings (including color schemes and behavior). Solution Navigator Solution Navigator is a new VS 2010 tool window provided with this week’s update. It acts like an enhanced Solution Explorer. It merges functionality from Solution Explorer, Class View, Object Browser, Call Hierarchy, Navigate To, and Find Symbol References all into one tool window – and is pretty darn cool. Here are just two scenarios of how you can take advantage of it: File + Class Explorer in One You can use the “Solution Navigator” to browse your project just like you would with the standard “Solution Explorer” tool window today.

Except instead of ending with only file sub-nodes, you can now expand them to see classes as well as individual methods and members within them. Clicking on one of the sub-nodes will navigate you immediately to the appropriate code block within the code editor. For example, below we’ve expanded the Controllers folder within an ASP.NET MVC project and drilled into the AccountController.cs file – which has a AccountController class within it. We can now drill into that class within the “Solution Navigator” to see a listing of all of its members – and double-click any of them to jump to it within the code editor: Filter Solution You might have noticed the search box that is at the top of the Solution Navigator above.

You can search within it to quickly filter your solution view. For example, below I’ve entered the string “Log” – which causes the “Solution Navigator” to automatically filter to only show those files and members that contain the word “Log” in their names (everything else is hidden within the explorer). Notice below how my filtered views displays a “view template” file named “LogOn.cshtml”, the three “LogXYZ” methods within my AccountController class, the LogOnModel class within the AccountModels.cs file, and several tests within my test project whose names contain Log: You can double click any of the filtered files or members to immediately navigate to it within the code editor. Quick Access Quick Access is a new VS 2010 tool window that allows you to quickly search for and execute common tasks within the IDE.