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 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

Suggest new extensions

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