Visual Studio extensions beyond the Marketplace

Bring your Visual Studio to life with adorable animated pets that walk along your status bar!

A modern start screen for Visual Studio with recent projects, developer news, daily tips, and quick actions.

Enhance XML documentation comments with rich rendering, automatic reflow, collapsing, color-coded tags, and clickable…

Adds icons for files that are not recognized by Solution Explorer

Language service for .editorconfig files with IntelliSense, validation and more. Supports .NET specific rules and…

Allows you to associate a color with a solution and display it in various locations within Visual Studio. Inspired by…

Uses industry standard tools to optimize any JPEG, PNG, WebP, SVG and Gifs - including animated Gifs. Can do both lossy…

Generate .http files from OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications

An extension pack that contains 'SQL Database Project Power Tools', 'T-SQL Analyzer' and 'SQL Formatter' to improve the…

Tools to enhance the SQL Database Projects developer experience, including Project and Item templates, Import existing…

Tools to enhance the SQL Database Projects experience in SSMS, including import of existing databases, manage code…

Skips projects that depend on a failed project while continuing to build independent projects.

Facilitates the viewing and edting of What's New content for Visual Studio

Aras Innovator Method Plugin provides easy way to create and modify Aras Innovator server-side methods. Method code can…

Formats .csproj files: Sorts elements alphabetically

Formats .resx files: Sorts data entries by name and removes schema and xml comments.

Rust language support for Visual Studio 2022 / 2026