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A curated list of awesomeness for Visual Studio IDE
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# Awesome Visual Studio [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

This page is a curated list of awesome things for Visual Studio (the full-blown IDE, not VS Code) by Microsoft.
Moreover, this page also includes some items relevant for Windows developers.

## General

- [Visual Studio website](https://www.visualstudio.com/) - Microsoft website of Visual Studio.

## Extension Sources

- [VSIX Gallery](http://vsixgallery.com/) - Gallery containing Visual Studio Extensions.
- [Visual Studio Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/) - Successor to Visual Studio Gallery with content for Visual Studio, VS Code, VS Team Services.
- [Visual Studio Gallery](https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/) - (Old) Gallery for Visual Studio Content.

## Extensions

- [GitHub](https://visualstudio.github.com/) - GitHub integration for Visual Studio.
- [Web Essentials](http://vswebessentials.com/) - Tools for web development (CSS, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Less, ...).
- [Syntax Highlighting Pack](https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d92fd742-bab3-4314-b866-50b871d679ee) - Syntax highlighting for many more languages.
- [Open Command Line](https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4e84e2cf-2d6b-472a-b1e2-b84932511379) - Easily open CMD or PowerShell from within Visual Studio.
- [Multi Edit Mode](https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2beb9705-b568-45d1-8550-751e181e3aef) - Adds multiple cursors to Visual Studio.
- [CodeMaid](http://www.codemaid.net/) - Plug-in for clean-up and simplification of many code tasks in C++, C#, and many other languages.
- [Productivity Power Tools](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioProductTeam.ProductivityPowerTools2015) - Many language-agnostic productivity tools.
- [CodeAlignment](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cpmcgrath.Codealignment) - Language-agnostic plug-in that vertically aligns code, e.g. on `=` signs or even customizable regular expressions.
- [Roaming Extension Manager](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioPlatformTeam.RoamingExtensionManager) - Stores your installed extensions in the cloud and synchronizes them across your machines for a uniform experience.
- [Keyboard Shortcut Exporter](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.KeyboardShortcutExporter) - Exports your keyboard shortcuts to XML.
- [Child Process Debugging Power Tool](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GreggMiskelly.MicrosoftChildProcessDebuggingPowerTool) - Extension that also instruct Visual Studio to automatically attach to child processes.
- [ReAttach](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ErlandR.ReAttach) - Easy way to re-attach to previous debug targets.
- [Indent Guides](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SteveDowerMSFT.IndentGuides) - Adds indentation guides to the code editor to easily visualize the level of indentation.
- [RevDeBug Prompter](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1469962.RevDeBugPrompter) - Lightweight debugging aid for C#.

## Documentation

- [MSDN](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd831853.aspx) - The Visual Studio landing page on Microsoft's Developer Network.
- [VisualStudio docs](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualstudio-docs) - GitHub repo with the documentation for the upcoming VS2017RC.
- [Visual Studio Shortcuts](http://visualstudioshortcuts.com/) - Overview of keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio 2012 to 2017 organized by version.
- [Windows Dev Center](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows) - Microsoft landing page for developers.
- [Channel9: Visual Studio](https://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio) - Visual Studio content on Microsoft's Video Channel 9.
- [Windows development videos](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/develop/app-development-video) - Videos covering Windows development
- [Microsoft Virtual Academy](https://mva.microsoft.com/) - Microsoft's online course material.

## Themes

## Social Media

- [Twitter: @visualstudio](https://twitter.com/visualstudio) - Visual Studio Twitter account.

## Blogs

- [Visual Studio Magazine](https://visualstudiomagazine.com/) - Online/Offline magazine covering Visual Studio.

- [Visual Studio Blog](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/) - Microsoft Visual Studio blog.
- [Visual C++ Team Blog](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/) - Microsoft Visual C++ Team Blog.
- [Visual Studio Team Services](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/) - Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services blog.
- [Mads Kristensen's blog](http://madskristensen.net/) - Blog by a prolific Visual Studio extension developer.