Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012

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Is there a new version of the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 available? I miss the enhanced scrollbars, the solution navigator and the tabs on the left side (and not on the top) and some other minor features like "Quick Find".

All of those things are OOTB except the tabs on the left side. — Andrew Clear
Like @aclear16, most of the features are already revised and merged as part of Visual Studio 2012. However, features such as tabs on the left side might not appear again. By removing them from Visual Studio 2012, the team seem to indicate they are not qualified for production usage. The Productivity Power Tools starts as a suite of experimental features, so whether there will be a PPT for Visual Studio 2012 depends on whether Visual Studio team would like to utilize that approach again. — Lex Li
@aclear16 The enhanced scroll bar is part of VS2012? I don't believe it is, so that makes two things are are not OOTB. This one in particular I'd like to have back. — matthewpavkov
Its finally here!! visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/… — Lee Baker

Neolisk Neolisk · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-11T01:57:42

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 were released on Nov 7, 2012 - as announced on The Visual Studio Blog. Aside from 2010 features, there are several new ones:

Quick Tasks (instantly perform common tasks - uses Quick Launch).
Power Commands (speeds up how you interact with code)
Color Printing (now you don't need a separate extension)

Here is a link to the extensions gallery page.

Note: Ctrl+Click works a bit different. New version reduces tab clutter, which would normally occur after aggressive Ctrl+Clicking. VS 2010 would keep all code files open, VS 2012 only keeps the current one, and it's right-aligned (in contrast to other tabs being left-aligned). There is an option to make it permanent, if you need to.

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012

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