An extension built for and by Visual Studio extension writers.
Download this extension from the VS Gallery or get the nightly build.
The Visual Studio Command Table leaves a lot to be desired in terms of both Intellisense and discoverability of even the most common use cases.
This extension improves on that.
Get Intellisense for symbols and groups through out the .vsct file
whether you're defining Groups, Menus, Buttons, KeyBindings or
CommandPlacements.
Provides Intellisense for IDs based on the guid attribute on
the same XML element.
All the built-in groups and menus are located under the guidSHLMainMenu
GUID and Intellisense is now provided for all the corresponding IDs.
All main XML elements in the VSCT file has snippets associated with them and can be invoked by hitting the Tab key.
Auto-generate the GuidList and PackageCommand classes every time
you save the VSCT file. This keeps your code in sync with the VSCT file
at all times.
Feature contributed by phofman
The margin is located below the bottom scrollbar and comes in handy when writing extensions that extends the VS editor.
Shows the encoding of the current document and more details on hover.
Shows the content type of the textbuffer at the caret position. The over tooltip shows the name of the base content type.
Displays the name of the classification at the caret position in the
document. The hover tooltip shows the inheritance hierarchy of the
EditorFormatDefinition's BaseDefinition attribute.
Colorizes registry keys, strings, keywords, comments and more.
Intellisense is provided for tokens and GUIDs.
By typing a question mark on an empty line, a list of snippets appear.
Hit Tab on the snippet you want and it will be inserted.
Matches parantheses and square brackets.
Validates various common mistakes like unknown tokens and unclosed strings and braces.
Format the entire document or just the selected lines.