Very cool Visual Studio extension – VS10x Code Map

I have been using this Visual Studio extension called VS10x Code Map by Michael Kiss and I love it. It sits on the left or right of the Visual Studio text editor and provides an attractive outline view of the properties, methods, regions, etc in the current code file and lets you quickly navigate to a particular member.

I have tried other add-ins in the past that provided a code outline but they were usually slow, unattractive, or used a tree view style interface that I found to be more cumbersome than scrolling. The other nice thing about this one is that if you use regions (sorry Jeff, but to each his own) it will group your members by those regions.

It’s probably only useful if you have a wide-screen monitor since it does take up valuable screen real-estate. But according to the Visual Studio Extension Manager (Tools -> Extension Manager) it’s pretty popular.