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Visual Studio extensions beyond the Marketplace

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VS Pets

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

Mads Kristensen
Comment Studio

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

Mads Kristensen
File Icons

Adds icons for files that are not recognized by Solution Explorer

Mads Kristensen
EditorConfig Language Service

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

Mads Kristensen
Solution Colors

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

Mads Kristensen
HTTP File Generator (PREVIEW)

Generate .http files from OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications

Christian Resma Helle
Fail Fast

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

Mads Kristensen
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Discolight Unit Test Adapter

Visual Studio Unit Test adapter for Silverlight 5

Rami Abughazaleh
CsProjFormatter

Formats .csproj files: Sorts elements alphabetically

Stefan Egli
ResxFormatter

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

Stefan Egli
rust-analyzer.vs

Rust language support for Visual Studio 2022 / 2026

Kitam Studios
SQL 4 CDS

Extends support for Dataverse queries to include DML and other queries not supported by the TDS Endpoint

Mark Carrington
Nullable.Extended

Tools to keep your nullability annotations lean and mean.

tom-englert.de
Lore

Lore source control inside Visual Studio. Onboard a solution or folder, see file status glyphs, commit, and manage a…

Mads Kristensen
VSNeo - Neovim for Visual Studio

Real Neovim inside Visual Studio: modes, motions, operators, registers, macros and the command line, executed by an…

knilecrack
DiffFinder for VS2026

The extension allows you to compare files in two shelvesets or one shelveset with pending changes. Based on…

Rami Abughazaleh
File Explorer

Gives access to all files and folders from the file system under the repo- or solution root folder. All in the same…

Mads Kristensen
NuGetMonitor

Check and notify about available updates for the installed NuGet packages for the open solution.

Samir Boulema, Tom Englert