Productivity Power Tools 2012

Microsoft Free

A set of extensions to Visual Studio 2012 Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.

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Visual Studio
2012
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4/4/2013
11.0.60403.0
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by Tom Ince | November 15 2012

Nice set of tools, but there are certain parts of it I want to disable and I can't find a way to enable/disable specific components.

This would be a 5-star if I could do this.

by IronToby | November 15 2012

Unfortunately the single feature I miss most from the 2010 version didn't make it yet: interactive tool tips. The rest is okay I guess.

by jtribley | November 14 2012

Well done guys, a must have extension.
Can we also have interactive tooltips too please?

by BZZR | November 13 2012

Completely killed my VS2012 install. Don't use. Only giving 1 star because you can't give 0 stars.

by Damodar.Karmacharya | November 12 2012

by Drillman | November 12 2012

by VyvIT | November 12 2012

The most useful feature - "Enhanced tooltips" is still not present. Can not rate high at the moment.

by jxp | November 09 2012

A must have.

by samneric1 | November 09 2012

At last! Awesome :)

by Dave Sexton | November 09 2012

by Cellyceos | November 09 2012

by Josh Luth | November 09 2012

So happy to see this back finally. It was one of the reasons I hesitated moving to 2012.

by sinkien | November 09 2012

Great :). I really missed Ctrl + Click ability, and...the scrollbar :). Thanks a lot :)

by Tonic_27 | November 09 2012

Enhanced scroll bar FTW! Thank you MS!!

by armith | November 08 2012

Never really realized how much I relied on these tools until I tried migrating my side projects over to VS2012. This really bridges the migration gap for me. Thanks MS!

by Zouzou123gen | November 08 2012

by cherrychocolate | November 08 2012

Finally! Love the vertical document tabs!

by Syberius | November 08 2012

by aserraric | November 08 2012

Finally VS2012 is complete. I'm still not sure why these essential features are not part of VS out of the box, but I'm happy I can now use them again.

by Mario Saccoia - MSP | November 08 2012

Fantastic tools!!!

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  • C# Objects Now Incorrect Color
    3 Posts | Last Post Wed 8:30 PM
    • I just installed this and now I've noticed that class objects like DateTime, Nullable, defined structs and others are now in normal (black) color rather than the color used for classes and other objects (light blue/green).
      
      I found that turning OFF Colorized Parameter Help in the Tools | Options, Productivity Power Tools returns to the default IntelliSense colors.
      
      Can this be fixed soon please as it's very annoying to have it as is right now but at least we can turn it off.  Thank you.
    • I have the same issue with the colors :(
    • Someone entered this on Connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/770603/text-editor-the-type-color-for-structs-is-black
      
      It would be great if this was fixed.
  • Ctrl+2 to quickly navigate to any class/member in the current source file
    1 Posts | Last Post Wed 8:33 AM
    • Hi, how can achieve the convinient functionality that was in version for VS2010? Ctrl+2 to quickly navigate to any class/member in the current source file.
  • CustomDocWell.dll sometimes hangs VS when starting a graphics debugging session
    1 Posts | Last Post Sat 12:53 AM
    • I have been having a problem with my visual studio hanging as soon as I try to start a graphics debugging session (alt+f5), but I finally went ahead and attached a debugger to see what's up.
      
      The issue appears to be that the visual studio graphics debugging engine performs operations on the UI, spawns windows, moves stuff, etc.. and when the Document well is involved, it appears to hang.
      
      The full call stack is too large to paste here, but I posted it here:
      http://pastebin.com/Y3ntDc1S
      
      
      Here are some relevant calls on the stack
      
      [...]
      CustomDocWell.dll!Microsoft.CustomDocWell.Slider.Controls.SliderDocumentTabPanel.MeasureOverride(System.Windows.Size panelConstraint) + 0x8a bytes	
      PresentationFramework.dll!System.Windows.FrameworkElement.MeasureCore(System.Windows.Size availableSize) + 0x1cc bytes	
      PresentationCore.dll!System.Windows.UIElement.Measure(System.Windows.Size availableSize) + 0x1cc bytes	
      PresentationCore.dll!System.Windows.ContextLayoutManager.UpdateLayout() + 0x1a1 bytes	
      PresentationCore.dll!System.Windows.UIElement.UpdateLayout() + 0x14 bytes	
      VsGraphicsDebuggerPkg.dll!Microsoft.VsPixPkg.VsPixFrameBufferViewer.ThumbListScrollViewer_SizeChanged(object sender, System.Windows.SizeChangedEventArgs e) + 0x17 bytes	
      [...]
      
      The weird thing is that this does not happen 100% of the time, but once it happens, it will persist until I give up. Then it'll randomly be fixed next time I decide to give it a try.. Likely something about the state of my Visual Studio UI?
      
      Anyway I've confirmed that disabling the document wells option fixes the issue (and renabling it brings the issue back). Would be great to see this fixed as I'm a big fan of the enhanced document well, but I'll have to go without it for now.
      
      Ps. Using the latest version (11.0.60403.0) on VS 2012 with update 1 and 2 installed.
  • Turn off Quick Find
    1 Posts | Last Post May 16, 2013
    • Hi,
      
      I've noticed you can turn the Quick Find extension off in VS2010 but not in VS2012. Is there another way or is the feature now mandatory?
  • Oleg Subachev
    2 Posts | Last Post May 16, 2013
    • After installing Productivity Power Tools 2012 DateTime has become black in code editor.
      Whats wrong ?
    • turn OFF Colorized Parameter Help 
      [thanks to PRISMAY]
  • Sort usings with 'System usings' at top?
    1 Posts | Last Post May 09, 2013
    • My team has StyleCop enabled with requirements that the 'System' using directives be placed above all others (Rule SA1208).
      
      Is there a way to have the 'sort usings' functionality sort in this way?  If not, please consider adding it.
  • can't find/access solution navigator
    3 Posts | Last Post May 08, 2013
    • hi folks - I've installed the Productivity Power Tools.  I can access many of the new features but the new Solution Navigator is nowhere to be seen.  Do I need to do something to enable this functionality?
      
      Thanks.
      
      Pete
    • Hi Pete,
      
      the Solution Navigator (named Solution Explorer) is already included in VS 2012 as a standard.
      
      J. B.
    • The new solution explorer in vs 2012 is way more behind the solution navigator included in the power tools. you cant expand members, like methods, and cant navigate to the local variables, which was extremely useful in a long method. The only improvement is the preview selected items.
      It would be nice to see the solution navigator back in the tools
  • I (still) want more Tab Well rows, NOT fewer!
    1 Posts | Last Post May 07, 2013
    • In VS2010 with PPT, when I pinned tabs I got (in effect) two rows of tabs.
      
      I see that no longer works in VS2012 / PPT.
      
      And I wanted (and requested, very nicely) MULTIPLE tab rows.
      
      While I use a portrait mode monitor and have less width to work with (enough for about five file tabs), I'm sure other developers open lots of files and would like to see multiple tab rows, too.
      
      I got a very nice REPLY when I requested this for PPT / 2010, but I'm sad to say now there's only a single row even when pinned.
      
      Please consider supporting multiple tab rows in the tab well on PPT / 2012.
      
      Thanks again for considering this again.
  • Outline "if" statements
    1 Posts | Last Post May 03, 2013
    • If would really be great if we could see an outline of nested if statements - and have the option to collapse/expand them as though each if statement was wrapped in a region.
  • Format document on save doesn't work for javascript files
    2 Posts | Last Post May 03, 2013
    • Can you please fix Format document on save doesn't work for javascript files too?
    • doesn't work for xaml either
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