{"id":6283,"date":"2016-04-07T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:29:55","slug":"new-noteworthy-visual-studio-extensions-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/new-noteworthy-visual-studio-extensions-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio &#8211; March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was great to see the excitement around <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2016\/03\/02\/new-noteworthy-visual-studio-extensions-feburary-2016\/?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">last month\u2019s post<\/a> and I heard from many of you that you have discovered some new extensions. March has been another great month for the Visual Studio ecosystem. We added over 100 extensions to the <a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/\">Visual Studio Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To help you enjoy this creativity from the community, every month or two I\u2019ll be introducing some of the new extensions that caught my eye. Here are the highlights for this month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#CommentRemover\">Comment Remover (remove ALL the comments!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#SmoothScroll\">Smooth Scroll (nice and simple)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#ASMDude\">AsmDude (support for assembly language)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#MSFTBandTileDesigner\">Microsoft Band Tile Designer Preview (must have for Band developers)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also if you missed our earlier post, we recently <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2016\/03\/17\/open-sourcing-the-visual-studio-productivity-power-tools\/?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">open sourced the Productivity Power Tools<\/a>. Besides being a great tool for developers, they make great samples for real world extensions. So head over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/VS-PPT\">repo<\/a> and take a look.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"CommentRemover\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Comment Remover by Mads Kristensen<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/845a87b1-3bd7-43a4-871d-0458d9fce206?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">Download Comment Remover<\/a> from the Visual Studio Gallery<\/p>\n<p>Last time, I showed you an extension that helped you with your xml comments. If you are not a friend of extensive comments, I got something different this time. An extension to remove all comments from your code. It does not only support removing comments from C# files, but also json files. Like almost all of Mad\u2019s extensions, the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/madskristensen\/CommentRemover\">source is available on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/before-removing-comments.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/before-removing-comments-1.png\" alt=\"Before Comment Remover\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/after-removing-comments.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/after-removing-comments-1.png\" alt=\"After Comment Remover\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"SmoothScroll\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Smooth Scroll by Lkytal<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/30b1f9a2-845d-48f2-aafc-98ece8817a87?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">Download Smooth Scroll<\/a> from the Visual Studio Gallery<\/p>\n<p>This is great example of a nice and simple extension. It enables smooth scrolling in the editor. Who would have thought that this is something you can improve through an extension? No screenshot here. You got to try it out and feel it yourself :).<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"ASMDude\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>AsmDude by H.J. Lebbink<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/ff839577-2b68-416a-b761-72f9b1ca7c8e?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">Download AsmDude<\/a> from the Visual Studio Gallery<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t claim to regularly look at assembly code, or even write it myself, however I love this little project to add assembly (ASM) syntax support to Visual Studio. The project is only one month old, but is being updated regularly with new features. You can see the full progress on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/HJLebbink\/asm-dude\">GitHub repo<\/a>. Maybe this is even something you are interested in contributing to, if you are passionate about assembly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/ASM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/ASM-1.png\" alt=\"ASM Dude\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"MSFTBandTileDesigner\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Microsoft Band Tile Designer Preview<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/90d69a44-7a8c-4324-bdcb-713c28c9658d?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">Download Microsoft Band Tile Designer Preview<\/a> from the Visual Studio Gallery<\/p>\n<p>This will come in handy, if you are a Microsoft Band developer. The extension provides an item template that makes it easy to add a Band tile to your app. Once you add the template, you can use the included designer and toolbox items to put together your tileby enabling selections , icons, and button presses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/microsoft-band-tile-designer.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/microsoft-band-tile-designer-1.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Band Tile Designer Preview\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Top 10 Popular Extensions from March 2016<\/h2>\n<p>As I mentioned in the beginning, we added a great number of new extensions in March. Out of the new ones added, here are the 10 most popular ones \u2014 give them a try!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/418d1f01-e58c-453a-a7d0-8381b562d499?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">TypeScript 1.8.4 for Visual Studio 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/f89fa62f-3316-4b43-a716-a57a4de6e3ee?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">DNX Angular2 Example project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/90d69a44-7a8c-4324-bdcb-713c28c9658d?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">Microsoft Band Tile Designer Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/3a23d0cc-d6b6-4873-bf8d-e4313353419a?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">DNX Console Application<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/de8d2bfa-fd5e-44d5-ab23-f8bccdcc2ef0?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">Qlik Analytics for Visual Studio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/2758202e-f99a-4163-9a73-254e64917632?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">Snippet Essentials<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/ff839577-2b68-416a-b761-72f9b1ca7c8e?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">AsmDude<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/c0d998b3-5bd7-4892-8e7e-698da69e4945?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">C# Mapping &amp; Mapper Class Generator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/febc2d81-34bd-4324-aadb-0a942eb39d43?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">CodeBeautifier<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/06139a76-d2ac-49ca-b917-4975e82e2d86?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">AzureIonic To-Do List Sample App<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Build your own<\/h2>\n<p>These few examples of simple integrations show a wide range of what you can build through Visual Studio\u2019s extensibility framework. If that piqued your interest, we just launched a new site with some great tutorials and videos on how to get started with Visual Studio extensions: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/integrate\/explore\/explore-vside-vsi?wt.mc_id=o~msft~vsblog~insideEcoMar2016\">VisualStudio.com\/integrate<\/a>. Take a look and let me know how it goes. I\u2019m also hanging out in our <a href=\"https:\/\/gitter.im\/Microsoft\/extendvs\">extendvs Gitter chat<\/a> as @bertique. Come on by and give me a shout.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"814\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"236\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/Michael-Dick-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"214\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"576\"><strong>Michael Dick, <\/strong>Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/midi2dot0\">@midi2dot0<\/a><b>\n<\/b>\nMichael Dick is a Program Manager working on the Visual Studio team. Before joining Microsoft, Michael worked at a variety of tech companies and is passionate about developer tools. 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