How to: Visual Studio Extensions for Developer Productivity
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**Note:**  [Visual Studio IntelliCode](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/) is installed by default with any workload that supports C#, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or XAML in Visual Studio 2022.
  
 [Visual Assist](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WholeTomatoSoftware.VisualAssist) is a productivity tool for C/C++ and C# that improves IDE features related to navigation, refactoring, code generation, and coding assistance along with specific tooling for UE4/UE5.
  
 [Resharper](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JetBrains.ReSharper) is a popular developer productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. It automates most of what can be automated in your coding routines. It finds compiler errors, runtime errors, redundancies, and code smells right as you type, suggesting intelligent corrections for them.
    
 [Visual Studio Live Share](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/) is an extension that provides a collection of extensions that enable real-time collaborative development with VS Live Share.
    
 [Visual Studio Spell Checker](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EWoodruff.VisualStudioSpellCheckerVS2022andLater) is an editor extension that checks the spelling of comments, strings, and plain text as you type or interactively with a tool window. It can also spell check an entire solution, project, or selected items. 
    
 [GitHub Extensions for Visual Studio](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.GitHubExtensionforVisualStudio) is a Visual Studio Extension that brings the GitHub Flow into Visual Studio.
    
 [REST API Client Code Generator](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ChristianResmaHelle.ApiClientCodeGenerator) is a collection of Visual Studio C# custom tool code generators for Swagger / OpenAPI specification files.
    
 [Code Maid](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SteveCadwallader.CodeMaid) is an open source Visual Studio extension to cleanup and simplify our C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, R, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.
    
 [VS Color Output](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MikeWard-AnnArbor.VSColorOutput)  is an extension for Visual Studio. This extension is a color output for build and debug windows.
    
 [Visual Studio Theme Pack](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=idex.vsthemepack) is a collection of popular themes, now available for Visual Studio.
    
 [Markdown Editor](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.MarkdownEditor2) is afull featured Markdown editor with live preview and syntax highlighting. Supports GitHub flavored Markdown.
    
 [SQLite and SQL Server Compact Toolbox](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ErikEJ.SQLServerCompactSQLiteToolbox) is an extension for Visual Studio. This extension 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.
 
 [NuGet Package Manager](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NuGetTeam.NuGetPackageManager) collection of tools to automate the process of downloading, installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing packages from a VS Project.
    
 [SlowCheetah](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscps.SlowCheetah-XMLTransforms) is a package allows you to automatically transform your app.config (or any file) when you press F5 in Visual Studio. You can have different transformations based on the build configuration. This will enable you to easily have different app settings, connection strings, etc for Debug versus Release. 
    
 [Roslynator](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=josefpihrt.Roslynator2022) is a collection of 500+ analyzers, refactorings and fixes for C#, powered by Roslyn.
    
 [Trailing Whitespace Visualizer](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.TrailingWhitespaceVisualizer) is an  extension will highlight and remove any trailing whitespace on any line in any editor in Visual Studio. This makes it really easy to get rid of those annoying invisible characters.
    
 [Magical C# Debugging—OzCode](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeValueLtd.OzCode) is a must have Visual Studio Extension which cuts down on debugging time and increases productivity by detecting and isolating bugs, making them easy to fix.
    
 [File Icons](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.FileIcons) is an extension that adds file icons to Solution Explorer for files that Visual Studio doesn't provide icons for.
 
 [Image Optimizer](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.ImageOptimizer) is an extension that uses industry standard tools to optim