Open the Visual Studio toolbox, locate the 'DX.18.1: Data' tab, choose the GridControl toolbox item and drop it onto the window. Note Dropping the GridControl toolbox item onto the window will automatically add all the required references (DevExpress.Core and DevExpress.Data).
-->The power of Visual Studio is increased by the thousands of extensions that allow you to customize or enhance your development experienceand increase your productivity. With each new release of Visual Studio, we invite partners to migrate their extensions so that they cantake advantage of the latest features in Visual Studio. Below, and on the Visual Studio Marketplace,you'll find a list of more than 250 extensions that are ready for you to install with Visual Studio 2017today. As additional extensions are migrated to Visual Studio 2017, you can find them on theVisual Studio Marketplace.
Extensions providers that are marked with 'Basic Partner', 'Alliance Partner', or 'Premier Partner' are ones who participate in theVisual Studio Partner Program. If you author an extension, we encourage you to join the Partner Program.
Devexpress Visual Studio 2017 Support
| Extension | Created By | Description |
| Actipro WPF Essentials - WPF Control Bundle | Actipro Software (Alliance Partner) | UI controls and components for WPF: Docking/MDI, Editors, Navigation, Ribbon, Wizard, and the Shared Library... all at incredible savings. |
| Actipro WPF Studio - WPF Control Suite | Actipro Software (Alliance Partner) | More than 100 WPF controls and components, including docking windows/MDI, Office ribbons, editors, propertygrids, gauges, charts, calendars & more. |
| ActiveReports | GrapeCity (Premier Partner) | .NET reporting tool for HTML5, WPF, Windows Forms, and ASP.NET provides developers with a familiar Visual Studio integrated designer, components, and extensive API. Optional scalable report server offers load balancing, multi-tenancy, scheduling, and batch printing. |
| Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .NET | Add-in Express (Alliance Partner) | All-in-one framework to develop world-class application-level extensions such as COM add-ins, RTD servers, XLL add-ins and UDFs for all applications and all versions of the Microsoft Office suite. |
| ADO.NET Data Providers | CDATA Software (Premier Partner) | Comprehensive access to application, database, and Web API data through familiar and easy-to-use tools. Use driver technologies for easy, fast, and secure access to your data. Build apps that connect to Google, QuickBooks, Salesforce.com, and more using standard VS wizards. |
| Advanced Installer | Caphyon (Premier Partner) | Authoring MSI, AppX and AppV packages and for repackaging by a wide users range, from beginners to senior developers and system administrators. |
| AIT WordToTFS | AIT GmbH (Basic Partner) | Microsoft Word plug-in that enables business analysts to seamlessly integrate Microsoft Word with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. |
| AnkhSVN | CollabNet (Alliance Partner) | Open Source SCC integration for Microsoft Visual Studio providing full Subversion support for Visual Studio. |
| AnyStatus | AnyStatus (Basic Partner) | Monitor processes and services on the back end of your development workflow. Includes integration services like AppVeyor, Jenkins, TeamCity, or TFS, remote and local Windows services, HTTP status, TCP ports, Performance Counters, CPU Usage, Code Coverage and more. |
| ApexSQL Complete | ApexSQL (Basic Partner) | Automatically fill in SQL keywords, statements and identifiers. It helps with object script and description reviews without coding interruption and also speeds up SQL coding with snippets. |
| ApexSQL Refactor | ApexSQL (Basic Partner) | SQL formatter and database refactoring tool for SQL Server. Format SQL queries, refactor SQL code and database tables with ease. |
| ApexSQL Search | ApexSQL (Basic Partner) | Analyzes SQL Server database object's dependencies within the database, across databases, scripts, and even applications. It recognizes all database dependencies. |
| Aqua | Aqua Security (Premier Partner) | Automates container image build vulnerability scanning. It can be embedded as a step in the CI process to provide vulnerability scanning for an image. |
| Arduino IDE for Visual Studio | Visual Micro (Basic Partner) | A free Arduino IDE compatible development tool for individuals and teams. Provides support for an unlimited number of different micro-controller and IoT devices such as:- Esp8266, Arduino Uno, Launchpad etc. Also includes hardware and library download managers. examples and documentation explorer, shared library projects, view hidden Arduino source code. An optional Pro version can also be purchased for a small free. Pro includes many extra features such as better support for Team Development, debugger options such as Serial, UDP, OCD, GDB etc, faster builds and serial logging. |
| Atalasoft DotImage Activation Wizard | Atalasoft (Alliance Partner) | Atalasoft DotImage Activation Wizard guides you through the process of activating a serial number or evaluation license for your Atalasoft DotImage toolkit. |
| Atomineer Pro Documentation | Jason Williams (Basic Partner) | Source-code documentation-comment creation and maintenance, and other documentation-related tools. |
| BISM Normalizer | BISM Normalizer (Basic Partner) | BISM Normalizer manages Microsoft Analysis Services tabular models. |
| Black Duck Hub | Black Duck Software (Premier Partner) | Allows organizations to automatically find and fix open source security vulnerabilities during the build process. It also creates a task that allows you to receive alerts and fail the build when any Black Duck Hub Policy Violations are met. |
| Bridge.NET | Bridge.NET (Basic Partner) | Open source C#-to-JavaScript compiler. Write your code in C#, then compile to JavaScript. Run your App on billions of devices using JavaScript. |
| Code Alignment | Chris McGrath | Code alignment helps you present your code beautifully, enhancing clarity and readability. |
| Code Compare | Devart (Alliance Partner) | File and folder comparison and merging, Code Compare takes into account specifics of programming languages (C#, Visual Basic, XML, XAML, etc.), supports two- and three- way comparison and merge. |
| CodeContracs R# Interop | tom-englert.de | A code fix provider that automates adding corresponding R# attributes for CodeContract annotations. |
| CodeRush for Roslyn | Developer Express (Premier Partner) | Powerful code creation, debugging, navigation, refactoring, analysis and visualization tools that exploit the new Roslyn engine. |
| combit List & Label | combit (Premier Partner) | List & Label is one of the most extensive report generators. Top: Fast performance and scalability with royalty free report designer that can be switched to many other languages with language kits. |
| Commit Formatter | Kristian Adrup (Basic Partner) | Extends team explorer and adds automatic hard word wrap to the Git commit message textbox according to the 50/72 style. |
| Component Diagnostics | Paul Harrington | Provides real-time diagnostics output of various sub-systems within Visual Studio. |
| ComponentOne Studio | GrapeCity (Premier Partner) | Delivers rich, responsive desktop and Web applications on time and under budget. Controls range from UI to complex data visualization and platforms include WinForms, UWP, WPF, MVC Core & ActiveX. |
| ComponentOne Studio - ASP.NET Web Forms Edition | GrapeCity (Premier Partner) | Deliver modern solutions with ComponentOne Studio Web Forms controls. Provide powerful data management with extensible, touch-first controls designed for Visual Studio. |
| ComponentOne Studio - MVC Edition | GrapeCity (Premier Partner) | Build modern, touch-first solutions without compromise. With ComponentOne Studio ASP.NET MVC Edition, you'll get fast, lightweight controls with professional designs to support any user requirement on the latest mobile devices and browsers. |
| ComponentOne Studio - UWP Edition | GrapeCity (Premier Partner) | Catapult your applications to new heights with our stunning visualization, powerful reports, and complete schedulers available on any Windows 10 device. Desktop, tablet, phone, and wearables become one—and you only have to code once. |
| ComponentOne Studio - WinForms Edition | GrapeCity (Premier Partner) | Harness the power of desktop applications with ComponentOne Studio WinForms Edition. Deliver top-of-the-line, modern solutions built on our foundation of grids, reporting, charts, and input controls. Design with power, right out of the box. |
| ComponentOne Studio - WPF Edition | GrapeCity (Premier Partner) | Embrace elegance and innovation with ComponentOne Studio WPF Edition, your complete toolset for desktop development. Lightning-fast grids, stunning 3D charts, and touch optimization will give your applications the edge they need in today's market. |
| ComponentOne Studio | GrapeCity, inc. (Premier Partner) | ComponentOne Studio combines all of our most popular platform Studios so you can deliver rich, responsive desktop and Web applications on time and under budget. Controls range from UI to complex data visualization and platforms include WinForms, UWP, WPF, MVC Core & ActiveX. |
| Conveyor | Keyoti (Basic Partner) | Easily test web applications from external tablets and phones on your network. |
| CVSNT Client Suite | March Hare Software (Alliance Partner) | Use CVS Suite to track changes to Visual Studio projects using CVS Suite Source Code Control Provider for Visual Studio. |
| dbForge Fusion for MySQL | Devart (Alliance Partner) | MySQL database development and enhance data management capabilities. Database development and administration tasks become available from your IDE. |
| dbForge Fusion for Oracle | Devart (Alliance Partner) | Oracle database development and enhance data management capabilities. Database development and administration tasks become available from your IDE. |
| dbForge Fusion for SQL Server | Devart (Alliance Partner) | SQL database development and enhance data management capabilities. Database development and administration tasks become available from your IDE. |
| dbForge SQL Complete | Devart (Alliance Partner) | Speeds up SQL code writing, offers context-based smart suggestions, performs automatic formatting, refactoring and a lot of other things that save time and effort in the database development process. |
| Deleaker | Softanics (Basic Partner) | For C++ developers to find and locate memory leaks, GDI leaks, handle leaks and other kinds of leaks. |
| DevCraft | Telerik (Premier Partner) | With UI libraries for HTML5 and every .NET platform, tools that speed up development and intuitive API, Telerik DevCraft™ by Progress is the most complete toolbox for building modern and future-proof business applications. |
| DevExpress Universal Subscription | Developer Express (Premier Partner) | The DevExpress Universal Subscription was built with the advanced developer in mind. Filled with user interface components, frameworks and toolsets targeting all major Microsoft platforms, it will give developers that boost for creating the next big application. |
| Document Converter for DOCX/DOC/PDF/Images | Gnostice Information Technologies (Alliance Partner) | Convert DOCX and DOC files to PDF and image formats with ease. It can also reconstruct page elements when converting from PDF to DOCX. |
| dotConnect | Devart (Alliance Partner) | ADO.NET data providers for a wide range of major databases and cloud apps with advanced data source-specific features. |
| Dotfuscator | PreEmptive Solutions (Premier Partner) | Provides smart application protection to over 5,000 commercial corporate clients in over 100+ countries helping organizations protect trade secrets (IP), reduce piracy & counterfeiting, and ward off tampering & data breaches. |
| DotImage Imaging SDK for ASP.NET and WinForms | Atalasoft (Alliance Partner) | DotImage is a full featured and easy to use photo and document imaging toolkit for .NET that brings advanced imaging to your desktop or web applications. |
| DotNetBar | DevComponents (Basic Partner) | Suite of WinForms and WPF controls to create professional looking applications with ease. |
| DotVVM for Visual Studio | RIGANTI (Basic Partner) | Build web applications using the MVVM pattern. Add the IntelliSense features for DotVVM markup files, includes the DotVVM project templates for OWIN and .NET Core, and adds many other useful features to make you really productive. |
| Dynamics CRM Deploy | Giancarlo Lelli (Basic Partner) | Use this product to deploy directly from Visual Studio any frontend customization for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. |
| Dynatrace AppMon Integration | Dynatrace (Premier Partner) | Integrate Dynatrace AppMon with Visual Studio. Automatically look up your source code from the Dynatrace AppMon client in Visual Studio with CodeLink. Launch your .NET applications with an injected Dynatrace .NET agent. Run your unit tests with the Dynatrace .NET agent. |
| Easy Git Integration Tools | Jon Zoss (Basic Partner) | Integrates Git with Visual Studio solution explorer and the status bar. |
| Editor Guidelines | Paul Harrington | Adds vertical column guides to the Visual Studio text editor. |
| Elements | RemObjects Software (Basic Partner) | Use C#, Swift, Oxygene Java to create applications for .NET, Cocoa, Java/Android and native Windows/Linux. |
| Elmah.io | elmah.io (Basic Partner) | Browse your elmah.io logs from within Visual Studio. |
| Entity Developer | Devart (Alliance Partner) | ORM designer for ADO.NET Entity Framework, NHibernate, LinqConnect, Telerik Data Access, and LINQ to SQL. Use Model-First and Database-First approaches to design your ORM model and generate C# or Visual Basic .NET code for it. |
| ErrorUnit | John Gold (Basic Partner) | A tool to capture errors and automatically create Unit tests emulating the current state of the program (including data accessed via EF so far), and the parameters called at each IoC layer. |
| Essential Studio Enterprise Edition | Syncfusion (Alliance Partner) | Supports cross-platform development through web, desktop, and mobile platforms with over 800 unique controls and frameworks. It includes Syncfusion’s enterprise solutions for dashboards and reporting as well as its award-winning Big Data Platform. |
| Eyeshot | devDept Software (Basic Partner) | Eyeshot is a CAD control based on the .NET Framework. It allows developers to easily add CAD functionalities to WinForms and WPF applications. Eyeshot provides tools for building geometry from scratch, analyzing it with finite element methods, and generating toolpaths on it. Geometry can also be imported or exported using CAD exchange file formats. |
| Funnel | Dimitri Dering (Basic Partner) | Master large and mid-size Visual Studio solutions. Decrease solution loading and re-compilation times dramatically by filtering projects not relevant for the current task. |
| GhostDoc | SubMain (Basic Partner) | Author XML documentation and maintaining documentation quality, produce the end user help documentation in multiple formats. |
| GitHub Extension for Visual Studio | GitHub | Connect and work with your repositories on GitHub and GitHub Enterprise from within Visual Studio 2015 or newer. Clone existing repositories or create new ones and start collaborating! |
| Glyphfriend | Rion Williams | Glyphfriend is an extension that adds Intellisense support to display preview glyphs for many of the common glyph-based font libraries like Font Awesome, Glyphicons, Ionic, and more. |
| Gnostice XtremeDocumentStudio .NET | Gnostice (Alliance Partner) | Gnostice XtremeDocumentStudio .NET enables you to embed PDF, DOCX, DOC, XLSX, XLS, ODS, TXT, and image viewing, printing, conversion, creation, and other document operations in your .NET applications. |
| Help File Builder and Tools | EWSoftware (Basic Partner) | Visual Studio integration for the Sandcastle Help File Builder |
| HLSL Tools for Visual Studio | Tim Jones (Basic Partner) | Brings full IntelliSense to High Level Shading Language (HLSL) files. |
| IncrediBuild | Incredibuild (Premier Partner) | Dramatically reduces build, compilation and development times by up to 90%. IncrediBuild’s non-intrusive parallel computing tech empowers users to easily save hundreds of hours just minutes after installing it. |
| Infragistics Ultimate / Infragistics Templates Gallery | Infragistics (Premier Partner) | Great Apps Happen By Design - Superior user experiences start with Infragistics Ultimate. Design before you build with Indigo Studio, share and collaborate on designs with indigodesigned.com, and build high performance, enterprise-ready desktop & Web line of business apps and mobile apps in your platform of choice - WPF, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, HTML5 & JavaScript, iOS, Android or Xamarin. |
| Infragistics Xamarin | Infragistics (Premier Partner) | Combining lightning-fast controls with a first-of-its-kind RAD WYSIWYG design-time experience, Infragistics Xamarin includes flexible iOS, Android, and Xamarin.Forms controls designed for the most demanding apps, outperforming all other Xamarin controls on the market. |
| InstallAware | InstallAware (Basic Partner) | InstallAware integrates directly with Visual Studio, giving you one-click build buttons on the toolbar for your active Visual Studio project. Build MSI Windows Installer, APPX Universal Windows Platform, and App-V Virtualization packages in a single click! |
| InstallSheild | Flexera Software (Alliance Partner) | Builds MSI and EXE Installers and UWP and WSA Packages for Windows Applications |
| IntervalZero RTX64 | IntervalZero (Alliance Partner) | An extension for integrating RTX64 SDK features into Visual Studio. This package includes wizards, templates, and debugging support for RTX64 real-time processes. |
| IP*Works! | /n Software (Premier Partner) | Enables rapid integration of any Internet technology including - FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, RSS, SMPP/SMS, XMPP/Jabber, SOAP, WebDav, etc. |
| JNBridgePro | JNBridge (Premier Partner) | Get your Java-based and .NET-based (C#, VB) components working together quickly and easily, with JNBridgePro. |
| LEADTOOLS | LEAD Technologies (Alliance Partner) | Dev toolkit to integrate raster, document, medical, multimedia, and vector imaging into their desktop, server, tablet, and mobile applications. |
| LightningChart Ultimate | Arction (Alliance Partner) | Fast 2D and 3D measurement, engineering, research, financing and trading data visualization SDK for both WPF and WinForms. |
| LINQ Insight | Devart (Alliance Partner) | Execute LINQ queries at design time directly from Visual Studio without starting a debug session and provides a powerful ORM profiler for Entity Framework, NHibernate, LINQ to SQL, and LinqConnect. |
| LinqConnect | Devart (Alliance Partner) | LINQ to SQL compatible ORM solution, supporting SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. It allows you to use efficient and powerful data access for your .NET Framework, Metro, Silverlight, or Windows Phone applications supporting Code-First, Model-First, Database-First or mixed approaches. |
| Liquid Studio | Liquid Technologies (Basic Partner) | Develop your XML and XSD applications within the familiar Microsoft Visual Studio environment. |
| List & Label 22 | combit Software (Premier Partner) | Extend apps with powerful reporting functions and have access to every kind of data processing and data exchange in classic applications as well as in web reporting or in the cloud. |
| Lucent Sky AVM | Lucent Sky (Basic Partner) | Access Lucent Sky AVM within Visual Studio, including scanning applications, reviewing identified vulnerabilities, and applying Instant Fixes to automatically remediate vulnerabilities. |
| MacinCloud VSTS Build Agent | Moboware (Basic Partner) | Build, test, and publish iOS, watchOS, and tvOS projects on genuine Apple Mac Hardware in the Cloud. Enterprise users can utilize MacinCloud VSTS Build Agent to accomplish Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. |
| Mads Kristensen's Productivity Extensions | Mads Kristensen | This list of more than 50 productivity tools for .NET and web developers includes Bundler & Minifier, Image Optimizer, JavaScript Snippet Pack, Open Command Line, Package Installer, Web Compiler, and many more. |
| Magical C# Debugging - OzCode | CodeValue (Alliance Partner) | Supercharges the C# debugging experience by cutting debugging time in half. Provides instant visual feedback on changes and allows rapid bug fixing. |
| Mobilize Modernization Tools | Mobilize.Net (Premier Partner) | Modernization tools to migrate legacy VB6 applications to .NET, migrate legacy desktop apps (.NET, PowerBuilder, Silverlight) to the web and Azure, and migrates Silverlight Phone Apps to Windows 10. |
| Mobilize.Net Silverlight Bridge | Mobilize.Net (Premier Partner) | Silverlight bridge migrates WinPhone apps to UWP. The tool parses and analyzes the app source code and converts references to Win 10 APIs or HTML5/JavaScript. You get native C# code with no runtimes. |
| Mobilize.Net Visual Basic Upgrade Companion | Mobilize.Net (Premier Partner) | VBUC migrates VB6 code to .NET and generates 100% native C# or VB.NET code without third party runtimes or dependencies. Save 80% of the time and cost of a rewrite and reduce the overall defect rate. |
| Mobilize.Net WebMAP | Mobilize.Net (Premier Partner) | WebMAP preserves your investment in existing Windows applications and transforms them to web and mobile versions – without costly runtimes. You get new source code – without introducing defects in existing business logic – using modern languages, components, and patterns. |
| Modern Requirements Suite4TFS | eDev Technologies (Premier Partner) | Provides a complete set of requirements lifecycle management and audit capabilities; supporting structured, agile/scrum methodologies at scale, and hybrid methodologies. It has two user interfaces, inteGREAT4TFS and SmartOffice4TFS that use Microsoft Team Foundation Server or VSTS natively. |
| MyGet Credential Provider | MyGet (Alliance Partner) | Easy way to connect to secured NuGet package sources hosted on MyGet. |
| MZ-Tools 8.0 | MZTools Software (Basic Partner) | Adds many productivity features for C# and VB.NET to code faster, find code faster, design faster, generate documentation, ensure the quality and enhance the Visual Studio experience. |
| Ncache | Alachisoft (Premier Partner) | Fast and linearly scalable .NET distributed cache. It includes self healing dynamic clusters, sync/async intelligent replication and complete GUI or CL admin tools. It is a 100% native .NET product and can be used from any .NET application. |
| nDepend | ZEN PROGRAM (Alliance Partner) | NDepend is a Visual Studio and Team Services tool that makes it easy to manage Code Quality on large and complex .NET code base. NDepend v2017 integrates with Visual Studio 2017. |
| Nevron Open Vision for .NET | Nevron (Alliance Partner) | Provides a powerful set of UI controls and heavy components, so that you can create feature-rich Applications and premium User Interfaces for multiple operating systems from a single code base. It includes UI controls, Grid, Rich Text Editor, Diagram, Chart, Gauge, Schedule and Barcode components. |
| Nevron Vision for .NET | Nevron (Alliance Partner) | Create unique and powerful data presentation applications with spectacular data visualization capabilities. |
| NUnit 2 Test Adapter | NUnit.org | The NUnit 2 Test Adapter works with the Visual Studio Test Explorer to allow integrated test execution under Visual Studio 2012 and newer. |
| NUnit 3 Test Adapter | NUnit.org | The NUnit 3 Test Adapter works with the Visual Studio Test Explorer to allow integrated test execution under Visual Studio 2012 and newer. |
| Object Exporter | Omar Elabd (Basic Partner) | Export any object while debugging in Visual Studio, the object can be serialized in either C#, JSON or XML. |
| OpsHub Integration Manager | OpsHub (Premier Partner) | Enables unidirectional and bidirectional real-time synchronization among systems for requirements management, source control, bug tracking, quality management, release management, service desk/help desk, and CRM. |
| OpsHub Visual Studio Migration Utility | OpsHub (Premier Partner) | Facilitates comprehensive and cost-effective transfers of data and context between Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services. |
| OzCode | CodeValue (Premier Partner) | OzCode enhances the C# debugging experience by giving you groundbreaking features and visualizations which help you squash bugs in no time, including the revolutionary new LINQ debugging magic! |
| PHP Tools for Visual Studio | DEVSENSE (Alliance Partner) | PHP Tools for Visual Studio transparently integrate into Visual Studio to include support for PHP language. It is focused on developer productivity respecting Visual Studio conventions. |
| PostSharp | PostSharp Technologies (Basic Partner) | Allows developers to eradicate boilerplate by offloading repeating work from humans to machines. Includes some the most common patterns and gives you the tools to build your own. |
| PowerTCP Emulation | Dart Communications (Alliance Partner) | Leverages a .NET 2.0 re-design. In addition to a sophisticated VT Display control, Emulation for .NET includes all the components and objects found in the PowerTCP Telnet for .NET 4.x product. |
| PowerTCP FTP | Dart Communications (Alliance Partner) | Copy files between your client and any FTP server - a single method call will do. Simple properties provide fine-grain control and file data will even spool to/from memory. |
| PowerTCP Mail | Dart Communications (Alliance Partner) | Easily integrate email capabilities like SMTP, POP, and IMAP into applications. |
| PowerTCP Sockets | Dart Communications (Alliance Partner) | Create multi-threaded TCP servers and powerful TCP/UDP Internet applications in .NET. |
| PowerTCP SSH and SFTP | Dart Communications (Alliance Partner) | Develop secure SSH and SFTP applications in C# and VB.NET. |
| PowerTCP Telnet | Dart Communications (Alliance Partner) | Leverages a .NET 2.0 redesign, providing the most advanced Internet Communications components available. Simplifies the use of Rexec, Rsh, Rlogin and Telnet connections by providing methods to establish, use and terminate sessions. |
| Prism Template Pack | Brian Lagunas | The Prism Template Pack contains a collection of snippets, item templates, and project templates for use with building WPF, UWP, and Xamarin.Forms applications using Prism. |
| Project Connect | Tivitie (Basic Partner) | Seamless approach to exchange critical information between development teams and project teams using Project Online and VSTS. |
| ProjectConfigurationManager | Tom Englert (Basic Partner) | Manage your solution and project configurations in one place. Forget about clicking through all the tabs in all the property pages - see all your projects and configurations on one grid. |
| Redgate ReadyRoll | Redgate Software (Premier Partner) | Extend DevOps processes to your SQL Server databases and safely automate database deployments. |
| Redgate ReadyRoll Pro | Redgate Software (Premier Partner) | Extend DevOps processes to your SQL Server databases. Develop, source control, and safely automate database deployments alongside application changes in Visual Studio. |
| Release Packager | ItsZap (Basic Partner) | Release Packager creates versioned release package from multiple projects in Solutions. The versioned release package allows Release Manager to better control the release and enable more granullar deliveries. |
| ReportMax | CppMax (Basic Partner) | Light weight yet rich reporting tool for Microsoft.net developers. It integrates within Visual Studio and enables .net developers to add reporting capabilities to their Winforms and Webforms (ASP.net) applications. |
| ReSharper Ultimate | JetBrains (Premier Partner) | ReSharper Ultimate is a set of JetBrains products for .NET, web and C++ developers who use Visual Studio. The set consists of ReSharper, ReSharper C++, dotTrace, dotMemory, dotCover, and dotPeeek. |
| ResXManager | Tom Englert (Basic Partner) | Provides central access to all ResX-based string resources in your solution. You can quickly navigate through all resource files and view the content in a well-arranged data grid. It makes it easy to find untranslated strings or clean up orphaned entries. All strings can be quickly edited in place, untranslated entries will be created on the fly while typing. Excel export and import lets you easily exchange translations outside of Visual Studio. Automated translations can speed up you localization process. |
| Review Assistant | Devart (Alliance Partner) | Peer code review tool for Visual Studio. The tool includes lightweight support for formal code review, allows defect and discussion tracking, integrates with code comparison tools and version control systems to facilitate working with code changes. |
| RTX64 Visual Studio Support | IntervalZero (Alliance Partner) | IntervalZero provides Visual Studio project templates and code snippets for developing Real-time Applications along with an integrated Visual Studio base debug monitor for debugging Real-time applications within the Visual Studio IDE. |
| SAP Mobile Platform SDK for Windows | SAP (Premier Partner) | Build desktop and mobile apps that keep people connected. It solves mobility challenges, supports desktop and mobile apps that fit your business-to-enterprise (B2E) or business-to-consumer (B2C) use case, and helps balance device user requirements with enterprise requirements. |
| Sauce for Visual Studio Team Services | Sauce Labs (Premier Partner) | Enables Continuous Delivery by speeding up the testing cycle while increasing the quality of mobile and web applications. |
| SD Elements | Security Compass (Premier Partner) | Automates software security requirements based on your project’s technology, business and compliance drivers. SD Elements eliminates security vulnerabilities in the most cost effective way, before scanning begins. |
| SoftTree SQL Assistant | SoftTree Technologies (Basic Partner) | Speed up the database development process, improving code quality and accuracy. It supports 14 popular database server types including SQL Server and SQL Azure. |
| SpecFlow | TechTalk (Basic Partner) | Bridges the communication gap between domain experts and developers by binding business readable behavior specifications and examples to the underlying implementation. |
| Spread | GrapeCity (Premier Partner) | Embed Microsoft Excel-compatible spreadsheet functionality for advanced business, engineering, and scientific applications. |
| SQL Prompt Core | Redgate Software (Premier Partner) | Write, format, and refactor SQL effortlessly. |
| SQL Prompt Pro | Redgate Software (Premier Partner) | Write, format, and refactor SQL effortlessly. |
| SQL Search | Redgate Software (Premier Partner) | Speed up SQL database development by finding SQL objects and navigating SQL Server databases fast inside Visual Studio. |
| SQLite / SQL Server Compact Toolbox | ErikEJ (Basic Partner) | Adds several features to help your embedded database development efforts: Scripting of tables and data, import from SQL Server and CSV files and much, much more. |
| Stored Procedure Generator | JSK Software (Basic Partner) | Automatically creates CRUD (Select, Insert, Update, and Delete) stored procedures for the tables in your database. |
| Supercharger | Michael Kiss (Basic Partner) | Significantly improve the Visual Studio development experience with features like CodeMAP, AutoText, Intelligent Code Flow Lines, Code Highlighters, Rich Code, Magic Comments, Phrasing Review, Spellist, SuperFind, Statistics etc. |
| SynergyDE | Synergex (Alliance Partner) | App development tools that include Synergy DBL, a proven ANSI-standard business language, seamlessly integrated with Visual Studio; a scalable, high-performance ISAM database; SQL and ODBC connectors; and other tools to meet application developers’ requirements for building high-performance, enterprise applications. |
| Tab Studio | Sergey Vlasov (Basic Partner) | Creates multiple rows of tabs when needed and groups tabs with the same name. Better manage all open documents in Visual Studio, grouped and organized most efficiently. |
| Tasktop Dev | Tasktop Technologies (Premier Partner) | Integration for ALM systems to the Visual Studio IDE. Developers can leverage Tasktop Dev to view and work on their epics, stories, tasks, and defects from tools such as Microsoft TFS, Atlassian JIRA, HPE ALM, IBM RTC, CA Agile Central, and VersionOne right from their Visual Studio IDE. |
| TeamCoding | George Duckett (Basic Partner) | Discover team members who are working in the same area of a source controlled solution as you. It displays icons on tabs, text in CodeLens is as well as showing a coloured caret where they are working for C# and visual basic code. |
| TeamCompanion | EKOBIT (Basic Partner) | Provides for better collaboration, efficient Agile Project Management and increased productivity in daily tasks. |
| TeeChart | Steema Software (Alliance Partner) | Offers full set of Chart types and a combination Gauge types for dashboard applications. It supports Windows Form, ASP.NET, UWP, WPF and Silverlight, Windows.Store and Windows Phone, Xamarin iOS, Android & Forms and adds many output formats including HTML5/Javascripted charts. |
| Telerik AppBuilder for Visual Studio | Telerik by Progress (Premier Partner) | Develop, test, debug, build, deploy, and publish cross-platform mobile apps with Apache Cordova or NativeScript. Use the Telerik Platform and Telerik AppBuilder tools and cloud services along with your favorite Visual Studio features to create apps for the major mobile platforms. |
| Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX | Telerik by Progress (Premier Partner) | Telerik UI extensions automatically create, upgrade and configure your Telerik UI projects in seconds, eliminating the need to set any assembly references, handler/module definitions, tag prefixes, etc. manually. Additionally the Visual Studio Extensions Package includes a set of ready-to-use Visual Studio templates that cover common application scenarios for Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX. |
| Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC | Telerik by Progress (Premier Partner) | The Visual Studio Extensions for Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC projects is an integration package that aims at significantly increasing your productivity when managing MVC projects in Visual Studio. Includes Project Templates, Configure and Upgrade Wizards. |
| Telerik UI for WinForms VSExtensions | Telerik by Progress (Premier Partner) | Telerik UI for WinForms Visual Studio Extensions is an integration package that will significantly increase you productivity when managing WinForms projects in Visual Studio. The product helps you work smarter with streamlined features and minimizes the learning curve for new users. |
| Telerik UI for WPF VSExtension | Telerik by Progress (Premier Partner) | Telerik UI for WPF Visual Studio Extensions is an integration package that will significantly increase you productivity when managing WPF projects in Visual Studio. The product helps you work smarter with streamlined features and minimizes the learning curve for new users. |
| TFS Auto Shelve | Vercellone (Basic Partner) | Creates a shelveset for the latest version of all pending changes in all TFS workspaces at a configurable interval. The functionality is equivalent to the 2015 version. |
| TFS Timetracker | Berichthaus Software (Basic Partner) | Allows tracking directly on workitems. Beyond Work, CI, Test and Sourcecontrol, add Time Management as fifth dimension to TFS. |
| TFSASAP | AIT GmbH (Basic Partner) | Platform for advanced administration and extensions for TFS. Its a central management location for server-side, event-based, scheduled automations, and administrative extensions. |
| The Modern Requirements Suite 4TFS | eDev Technologies (Premier Partner) | The MR Suite 4TFS extends TFS/VSTS for requirements management natively, using either platform as its app server and database. The combined solution delivers requirements automation, auditability and collaboration. |
| Time Savers | Luminous Software Solutions (Basic Partner) | Enhance day-to-day productivity for developing with Visual Studio. |
| TSVN | Samir Boulema (Basic Partner) | Control TortoiseSVN from within Visual Studio |
| TX Text Control | Text Control (Alliance Partner) | Reporting and word processing components that offers developers all the features expected in a high end word processing package in reusable component form. |
| Viasfora | Tomas Restrepo | Viasfora is a free extension for Visual Studio 2012 - 2017 that improves your text editing experience; known mostly for implementing Rainbow Braces for Visual Studio languages! |
| Vidyano | 2sky (Alliance Partner) | Allows developers to create full featured, secure and scalable web applications in no time. |
| Visual Assist | Whole Tomato Software (Premier Partner) | Visual Assist is a productivity tool for C/C++ and C# developers of Microsoft Visual Studio. Visual Assist fills IDE gaps in navigation, refactoring, code generation, and coding assistance. |
| Visual COBOL | Micro Focus (US) (Premier Partner) | Provides COBOL development and integration tools—in your choice of Visual Studio or Eclipse—that offer programmers an unrivaled development experience. Use Visual COBOL to help your AppDev teams work better together and deliver new functionality faster to your business users. |
| Visual Studio Spell Checker | EWSoftware (Basic Partner) | Checks the spelling of comments, strings, and plain text as you type or interactively with a tool window. It also spell checks an entire solution, project, or selected items. |
| Visual Studio Toolkit | Thijs Tijsma (Basic Partner) | Provides tools that will help boost your daily productivity in Visual Studio. |
| VisualSVN | VisualSVN Software (Alliance Partner) | VisualSVN is a Visual Studio plug-in that integrates Subversion and TortoiseSVN seamlessly with Visual Studio. VisualSVN virtually eliminates the management of your project source code files within Subversion. Program, design, debug and deploy with VisualSVN as your silent partner that safeguards your source code. With VisualSVN deployed throughout your development organization, all of your developers will be using Subversion confidently an effectively to manage and safeguard your organization's work product. |
| VSColorOutput | Mike Ward | VSColorOutput changes the color of a line emitted to the output window based on specified rules. The rules consist of regular expressions. Rules map to classifications which in turn map to colors. |
| Vsdocman | Helixoft (Basic Partner) | A tool for commenting and the automatic generation of class documentation from your C# and VB .NET source code, including ASP .NET. It creates MSDN-like documentation, IntelliSense and F1 help. |
| VSIXEasyEfRepo | Alex Bertini (Basic Partner) | Simple implementation of the generic repository pattern. Offers simple CRUD operations on generic entities for quick making of the data layer. |
| VSTS Extension Project Templates | Josh Garverick (Basic Partner) | Create scaffolded VSTS/TFS extensions in Visual Studio. |
| VSTS on Mobile | Canarys Automations (Basic Partner) | Access VSTS data from the mobile devices running Android and iOS. The team project data can be accessed by the stakeholders on the move to stay updated on the project health. |
| WakaTime | WakaTime (Basic Partner) | The WakaTime extension provides metrics, insights, and time tracking automatically generated from your programming activity. With over 30 text editors & IDEs supported, 700+ languages detected, and over 6 million hours coded, WakaTime is the leading automated programming metrics platform. Using open-source text editor plugins, you get real-time insight into your coding activity. WakaTime's dashboard shows how long you spend working in each file, language, project, and branch. See how long your features are taking and improve your estimates. |
| Wallaby.js | Wallaby.js (Basic Partner) | Wallaby.js is an intelligent and super fast test runner for JavaScript that continuously runs your tests. It reports code coverage and other results directly to your code editor, immediately as you change your code. Wallaby.js is insanely fast, because it only executes tests affected by your code changes and runs your tests in parallel. The tool provides a huge productivity boost whether you are doing TDD/BDD or using any other approach. |
| Wax | Tom Englert (Basic Partner) | An interactive editor for WiX setup projects. While it's easy to create an empty setup project with the WiX toolkit, populating the list of deployable files and even more keeping the list up to date can be a very fumbling task.This tool is a Visual Studio Extension that helps you to create, verify and maintain the list of deployed files in an interactive gui. |
| WhiteSource | WhiteSource (Premier Partner) | WhiteSource automatically detects all open source components and their licenses in your build. It also alerts on vulnerable open source components and suggests possible remediation. WhiteSource Bolt is an integrated product within the VSTS and TFS products and runs directly in your build and release pipeline. |
| wiwet ASP.NET Templates | wiwet (Basic Partner) | Beautiful and fully responsive, cross-browser, and retina ready ASP.NET templates. All the templates we produce are fully compatible with Visual Studio and include master pages, views, partial views, web controls and web pages. They are all ready to go when you need them with absolutely no hassle. Our templates allow you to create brand new projects in less than a minute. Simple. Easy. Fast. |
| WIX Toolset | FireGiant (Premier Partner) | Powerful set of tools available to create your Windows installation experience. |
| XabluCross for MvvmCross | XabluCross (Premier Partner) | XabluCross provides enterprise grade support for MvvmCross. With it's expertise and plugin ecosystem it is the recommended partner for companies using Xamarin and MvvmCross. |
| Xsharp | Xsharp (Alliance Partner) | X# is a .Net development language based on the xBase syntax. It supports multiple dialects of xBase. The 'core' language can be seen as C# with an xBase syntax. Other supported dialects are VO/Vulcan, FoxPro, dBase, Xbase++ and Harbour Each dialect adds its own special types All dialects (expect core) support the xBase RDD system with support for many xBase file formats such as DBF/DBT, DBF/FPT and DBF/SMT and index formats NDX, NTX, MDX, CDX, IDX, NSX etc. |
| XtremeDocumentStudio .NET | Gnostice Information Technologies (Alliance Partner) | A multi-format document-processing framework for .NET developers. |
