Essential Extensions (Core)

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.

See the changelog for changes and roadmap.

Installed extensions

• .ignore
• Add New File
• Comment Remover
• Dummy Text Generator
• Editor Guidelines
• EditorConfig Language Service
• Error Catcher II
• File Icons
• File Nesting
• Image Sprites
• Image Optimizer
• Insert Guid
• License Header Manager
• Multi Edit Mode (Visual Studio 2017)
• Open Command Line
• Pretty Paste
• Productivity Power Tools
• Syntax Highlighting Pack
• SVG Viewer
• Trailing Whitespace Visualizer
• Visual Studio Spell Checker
• Visual Studio IntelliCode

Suggest new extensions

If you know of any good extensions that you think would benefit developers, submit an issue.