Tuesday, July 31, 2018

CodeMaid: An essential plugin for Visual Studio

If you are a front-end developer like me then you must have used Visual Studio for your daily project work official or non-official. Visual Studio is very popular IDE developed by Microsoft and it has various free huge collection of plugins which are really helpful for the developers for programming or coding stuffs.

Today in this post I am going to talk about a very essential plugin called 'CodeMaid' developed by Steve Cadwallader which has an more than a million downloads.

CodeMaid provides the ability to cleanup and simplify code including code cleaning and reorganizing, visualizing and navigating through your code, formatting comments and more.



Check it out following cool features of CodeMaid and I hope you'll really like it:

Code Cleaning

Code cleanup can run automatically on save, or on demand. It can run on an individual file, all open files, any selection in the solution explorer, or the entire solution.

Actions taken on cleanup

  • Remove unused using statements
  • Sort using statements
  • Add unspecified access modifiers
  • Remove empty regions
  • Add blank line padding
  • Remove blank lines next to braces
  • Run Visual Studio formatting
  • Remove consecutive blank lines
  • Remove end of line whitespace
  • Update endregion tags
Image below is before cleaning:


Image below is after cleaning:


Code Digging

Visualize and navigate through the contents of your C# and C++ files from a tree view hierarchy.



Quickly switch between different sorting methods to get a better overview.



Type a search filter to find specific items.


Drag and drop to reorganize the code.


As you can see above there are plenty of cool features available in this plugin. Please visit here to see more features into action.

Here is a complete video presented by Steve Cadwallader in this short video he showed a demo of every feature available in this plugin:


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Wish you a happy coding.

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