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copied!<p>I have been working with Visual Studio (WinForm and ASP.NET applications using mostly C#) for several months now. For the most part my IDE is set up fairly standard but I have been wondering what are some suggestions in terms of plugins/settings that you find to be the most useful?</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: Thanks for all the great suggestions. It looks like a general consensus that I should look into 'Resharper' along with some eye-candy with themes and custom fonts.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Themes</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Consolas Font Pack for Visual Studio 2005/2008</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Scott Hanselman's Visual Studio Themes Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="http://frickinsweet.com/tools/Theme.mvc.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Visual Studio Theme Generator</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Free Tools</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/df3f0c30-3d37-4e06-9ef8-3bff3508be31" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008</a></li> <li><a href="http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GhostDoc</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/hyperAddin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HyperAddin</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingRockScroll.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RockScroll</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/CodeRushX/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CodeRush XPress</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">.NET Reflector</a> - (Not a plugin but still useful)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Paid Tools</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Resharper</a> - Free (Open Source), $49 (Academic), $199 (Personal), $349 (Commercial)</li> <li><a href="http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/Coding_Assistance/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CodeRush with Refactor!™ Pro</a> - $249</li> </ul>

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