Couple of years ago, I’ve created a Visual Studio extension to colorize things in C#. More specifically I was trying to colorize different programming constructs such as extension methods. So it had to be done in a syntax aware manner as oppose to coloring text. For that I used Roslyn .NET compiler to do this. …
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NDepend 2018 Review: A Flexible Static Analyzer
NDepend is an static analyzer which can provide various useful information about the quality of the code base. With its built in rules, it calculates how much technical debt the project is in, and estimate how many hours it takes to pay them. For the first time users, the UI might be a little overwhelming, …
Color Coder 1.0.1 Released
It is almost a year since I first released the Color Coder extension. I haven’t spent much time on it and planed to do it once it hit a certain amount of users. But recently with Visual Studio update 15.7 the extension didn’t work properly. So I fixed it and made other improvements to it …
12 Visual Studio Extensions You Might Find Useful
I previously wrote about some Visual Studio extensions that I though was most useful here. I think that list still stands. But in this post I’m going to introduce less known extensions that I think might be useful, but not essential. Viasfora Viasfora adds tons of features to your code formatting experience. From code rain …
Supercharge Your Text Editing With Viasfora
I recently wrote about Top 14 Must Have Free Extensions For Visual Studio 2015, but it turns out, I’ve missed on one other great extension. It is called Viasfora. What Viasfora does for you is that it changes your braces and parenthesis color in such a way that nested parenthesis and braces do not confuse …
Top 14 Must Have Free Extensions For Visual Studio 2015
These days, being a developer using Microsoft platform has become very exciting. Partly because of open sourcing of .NET and integration of its products with other great open source platforms. But also the latest free IDE that Microsoft made available has a very good set of features for non-commercial or small company use. Free IDE …