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Matt Lacey

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Rapid-XAML-Toolkit. A collection of tools to accelerate XAML development within Visual Studio. These include XAML analysis, XAML generations, plus templates and helpers.

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MauiAppAccelerator. A Visual Studio extension to accelerate the creation of new .NET MAUI apps.

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StringResourceVisualizer. Visual Studio extension that shows the text of a string resource (.resx) when used inline in code.

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ErrorHelper. Copy or search for the description of errors in Visual Studio

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phonegap-wp7. PhoneGap (now called Cordova) support for Windows phone 7 - see also https://github.com/apache/cordova-wp8

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CollapseComments. Visual Studio extension to improve working with comments in code

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CommentLinks. Add links between files in code comments

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TemplateStudio. Improve the 'File > New' experience and accelerate the creation of apps in Visual Studio 2022.

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WarnAboutTodos. Create warnings about TODO comments

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CSInlineColorViz. See samples of the colors you use within your C# code.

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ConstVisualizer. Visual Studio extension to show the values of constants where they are used

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enamel. A Request For Comment (RFC) about an idea for the future of XAML development.

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UwpDesignTimeData. Enable inline design-time data in UWP projects

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DemoSnippets. A Visual Studio extension for working with code snippets when giving demos.

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XamlStyleTypes. Automatically generate classes for explicitly defined styles in XAML resource dictionaries

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ProXamlToolbox. An experimental approach to the faster creation of XAML code

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dotnet-maui-workshop-xaml. A follow-on from the ".NET MAUI Workshop in a Box" that focuses on XAML.

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SimpleJsonAnalyzer. A simplified version of the JsonAnalyzer. Great for validating local JSON files or when you already have JSON in a string.

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VSWaterMark. Display a text watermark over the Visual Studio editor.

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ClearlyEditable. Change the editor background color to show which documents can't or shouldn't be edited.

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DontCopyAlways. Visual Studio extension that checks for files that have 'Copy to output directory' set to 'Copy always'.

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microsoft-ui-xaml-specs. API spec repository for the Windows UI Library (WinUI)

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UwpEssentials. Single installer for setting up Visual Studio for UWP Development

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Plugin.Maui.Accessibility. C#

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MauiEssentials. Visual Studio extension pack for .NET MAUI development

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UwpDevTidy. A tool to remove UWP apps created and installed during development

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my-config.

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FileContentsVisualizer. C#

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alwaysuse. Automatically add using directives to open C# files.

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VSConsole. C#

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GenOne. C#

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RapidXamlDev. Website for Rapid XAML Toolkit

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ResPsuedoLoc. A quick way to check that all string resources are localized by pseudo-localizing them.

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VSHighlighter. A Visual Studio extension to highlight parts of code to make them easier to see and find.

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WindowsTestHelpers. A library of utility functions related to testing Windows applications.

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NanoIoC. My Dependency Injection framework for Windows Phone

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ShowKeys. Show the default Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts on-screen when common commands are invoked.

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VsixTools. Single installer for all my Visual Studio Extensions

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DevToys. A Swiss Army knife for developers.

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RunOnStartVS. A Visual Studio extension to run PowerShell scripts when a solution is loaded.

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mrlacey.

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WinUI-Essentials. A Visual Studio extension pack containing tools to help developers building apps with WinUI3

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MonoMobile.Extensions. A project to use the familiar PhoneGap library to extend MonoTouch, MonoDroid and Windows Phone 7 platforms to use a common way of accessing phone functionality and UI components

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WindowsTemplateStudio. Windows Template Studio quickly builds a UWP app, using a wizard-based UI to turn your needs into a foundation of Windows 10 patterns and best practices.

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WinAppLaunchCompare. C#

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FestiveEditor. Add festive adornments to the Visual Studio editor.

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XamlStyler. Visual Studio extension to help format your XAML source code

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MVVM-Samples. Sample repo for MVVM package

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code-stories. C#

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vscode-extension-samples. Sample code illustrating the VS Code extension API.

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ghpkgtest. Test repo for showing GitHub Actions to create NuGet packages that are hosted as GitHub Packages.

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StrykerBugRepro. Minimal repro project for https://github.com/stryker-mutator/stryker-net/issues/3181

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MattsPullRequestHelper. C#

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awesome-winui. A collection of awesome resources for WinUI / Windows developers.

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MahApps.Metro. A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.

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