Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 were released on Nov 7, 2012 – as announced on The Visual Studio Blog. Aside from 2010 features, there are several new ones: Quick Tasks (instantly perform common tasks – uses Quick Launch). Power Commands (speeds up how you interact with code) Color Printing (now you don’t need … Read more

Visualizing your code’s architecture [closed]

I am afraid that there is no perfect tool for comprehensive visualizing your program architecture and its control flow, you should keep them in your head and make your software architecture clean, uniform and predictable. However there are some tools that can help you. In Pycharm you can: view structure and hierarchy of the source … Read more

TODO comment font color in VS2010 with ReSharper and Productivity Power Tools

To change the colour of the TODO items in the text editor, change the environment settings using Visual Studio (Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors) Then scroll to the item in the “Display items” list which in this case is “Resharper TODO item” UPDATE: this applies to Resharper 7.1 and 8.2 upwards … Read more

Why does it take sooo long to load my solution in Visual Studio?

I found a solution myself and I wanted to share it here, hoping that it might save someone quite a few hours of research and staring at the “Preparing solution…” dialog. When inspecting the devenv.exe process with Process Monitor, I found out that it is pretty busy with accessing the .svn directory. Here is what … Read more

What is .sln.docstates file created by Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools?

Here is what Microsoft have to say about it: The .docstates file new in this release of the Pro Power Tools. It is used by the Document Tab Well extension to persist and hydrate the state of the floating tab wells. This information was being stored in the hidden .suo file but we had to … Read more

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