Download the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools

I saw in my feed reader a posting that announced the release of the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension that was available in the Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager. At first glance I thought it was the Power Tools extension that I’ve been using for a while. However, this is a totally separate extension that adds some very awesome features.

Note that they go into a lot of detail on the enhanced document tab feature but although this is neat and useful, it’s not really in my top 3 features. I’ve emphasized my 3 favorite features.

• Document Well 2010 Plus
  • Tab Well UI
    • Scrollable tabs
    • Vertical tabs
    • Pinned tabs
    • Show close button in tab well
  • Tab Behavior
    • Remove tabs by usage order (LRU)
    • Show pinned tabs in a separate row/column
  • Sorting
    • Sort tabs by project
    • Sort tabs alphabetically
    • Sort tab well dropdown alphabetically
  • Tab UI
    • Color tabs according to their project or according to regular expressions
    • Miscellaneous options that modify tab UI
      • Show document/toolwindow icon in tab
      • Show close button in tab
      • Modify dirty indicator style
      • Modify minimum and maximum tab size
• Searchable Add Reference Dialog
• Highlight Current Line
• HTML Copy
• Triple Click
• Fix Mixed Tabs
• Ctrl + Click Go To Definition
• Align Assignments
• Colorized Parameter Help
• Move Line Up/Down Commands
• Column Guides