Visual Studio & TFS 11 – List of extensions and upgrades
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This post is a list of the extensions I recommend for use with Visual Studio 11. It’s coming up all the time – what to install, where are the download sites, last version, etc etc, and thus I thought it better to post it here and keep it updated. The basics are Visual Studio 11 connected to a Team Foundation Server 11.
Note that we now are at Beta time, and that also many live in a side-by-side environment with Visual Studio 2010. The side-by-side is supported by VS 11. However, if you installed a component supporting VS11 before you installed VS11, then you need to reinstall it. The VSIX installer will understand that it is to apply those only for VS11, and will not touch – nor remove – the same for VS2010. A good example here is the Power Commands.
The list is more or less in priority order.
The focus is to get a setup which can be used for a complete coding experience for the whole ALM process.
The list of course reflects what I use for my work , so it is by no means complete, and for some of the tools there are equally useful alternatives. Many components have not yet arrived with VS11 support. I will add them as they arrive.
The components directly associated with Visual Studio from Microsoft should be common, see the Microsoft column.
If you still need the VS2010 extensions, here they are: The extensions for VS 2010.
Components ready for VS 11, both upgrades and new ones
| Product | Notes | Latest Version | License | Applicable to | Microsoft |
| TFS Power Tools Beta 111 | Side-by-side with TFS 2010 should work, but remove the Shell Extension from the TFS 2010 power tool first. | March 2012(11.0.50321.0) | Free | TFS integration | Yes |
| ReSharper | EAP for Beta 11 (updates very often, nearly daily) | 7.0.3.261 pr. 16/3/2012 | Free as EAP, Licensed later | Coding & Quality | No |
| Power Commands1 | Just reinstall, even if you already have it for VS2010. The reinstall will then apply it to VS 11 | 1.0.2.3 | Free | Coding | Yes |
| Visualization and Modelling SDK for beta | Info here and here. Another download site and info here. Also download from MSDN Subscription site. Requires VS 11 Beta SDK | 11 | Free now, otherwise Part of MSDN Subscription | Modeling | Yes |
| Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK | Published 16.2.2012 | Yes | |||
| Visual Studio 11 Feedback tool1 | Use this to really ease the process of sending bugs back to Microsoft. | 1.1 | Free as prerelase | Visual Studio | Yes |
#1 Get via Visual Studio’s Tools | Extension Manager (or The Code Gallery). (From Adam : All these are auto updated by the Extension Manager in Visual Studio)
#2 Works with ultimate only
Components we wait for, not yet in a VS 11 version
| Product | Notes | Latest Version | License | Applicable to | Microsoft |
| Coding | Yes | ||||
| Inmeta Build Explorer | Free | TFS integration | No | ||
| Build Manager | Community Build Manager. Info here from Jakob | Free | TFS Integration | No | |
| Code Contracts | Coming real soon | Free | Coding & Quality | Yes | |
| Code Contracts Editor Extensions | Free | Coding & Quality | Yes | ||
| Web Std Update | Free | Coding (Web) | Yes (MSFT) | ||
| Web Essentials | Free | Coding (Web) | Yes (MSFT) | ||
| DotPeek | It says up to .Net 4.0, but some tests indicates it seems to be able to handle 4.5. | 1.0.0.7999 | Free | Coding/Investigation | No |
| Just Decompile | Also says up to .net 4.0 | Free | Coding/Investigation | No | |
| dotTrace | Licensed | Quality | No | ||
| NDepend | Licensed | Quality | No | ||
| tangible T4 editor | Lite version Free (Good enough) | Coding (T4 templates) | No | ||
| Pex | Moles are now integrated and improved in VS 11 as a new library called Fakes. | Coding & Unit Testing | Yes |
Components which are now integrated into VS 11
| Product | Notes |
| Productivity Power Tools | Features integrated into VS11, with a few exceptions, I don’t think you will miss those. |
| Fakes | Was Moles in 2010. Fakes is improved and made into a product. |
| NuGet Manager | Included in the install, but still an extension package. Info here. |
Product installation, upgrades and patches for VS/TFS 11
| Product | Notes | Date | Applicable to |
| Visual Studio 11 & TFS 11 Beta | This is the beta release, and you are free to download and try it out. | March 2012 | Visual Studio and TFS |
| SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 4 | The TFS 11 requires the CU1 at least, but you should go up to at least CU4, since this update solves a ghost record problem that otherwise may cause your TFS database to not release records the way it should when you clean it up, see this post for more information on that issue. | Oct 2011 | SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 |
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