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Productivity Power Tools 2017 | Visual Studio Toolbox
In this episode, Robert is joined by Justin Clareburt, who shows off the Visual Studio 2017 version of the Productivity Power Tools, a collection of 15 extensions that provide additional features for the Visual Studio IDE. Justin covers:
- Productivity Power Tools installation[03:30]
- Align Assignments[12:00]: Aligns assignment statements by typing Ctrl+Alt+]
- Copy As Html[13:35]: Provides support for the HTML Clipboard format when cutting for copying code from the editor
- Ctrl+Click GoTo Definition[15:40]: Enables clickable hyperlinks to symbols in source code in your code by holding down the Ctrl key when hovering with the mouse
- Custom Document Well[18:45]: Allows users to change the behavior of their document tabs
- Double-Click Maximize[22:00]: Maximize any docked window by double-clicking its title bar and restore/dock by double-clicking again
- Editor Guidelines[22:45]: Draws a vertical line in the code editor to remind developers that their full line of code or comments may not fit one a single screen
- Fix Mixed Tabs [25:25]: Helps to manage the whitespace inside your document and assists in keeping consistency in the use of tabs and spaces
- Match Margin[28:10]: Highlights all the textual matches of token at the caret location in the Editor
- Middle-Click Scroll[29:08]: Enables you to press down on your scroll wheel and move the mouse to quickly scroll through your document
- Peek Help[30:05]: Brings up the F1 Help content inline in the editor
- Power Commands for Visual Studio[31:40]: A set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio IDE, including Remove and Sort Usings, Copy Path and Open Command Prompt
- Quick Launch Tasks[34:40]: Provides easy access to commonly used options (EG: toggling line numbers) as well as popular functionality (EG: collapsing/expanding regions)
- Shrink Empty Lines[36:15]: Shrinks lines that contain neither letters nor numbers by 25% vertically, allowing more lines to be displayed in the editor
- Solution Error Visualizer[38:00]: Adds error, warning, and message squiggles to Solution Explorer
- Time Stamp Margin[40:25]: Adds the timestamp information to the Output Window in Debug mode