What's in your Visual Studio?

I noticed tonight my splash screen for Visual Studio was getting a little out of control (in addition to taking some time to load):

Visual Studio Team Suite Splash Screen

I run Team Suite (just because I can) and I've got a lot loaded (including a new experiment, running ReSharper *and* CodeRush/Refactor Pro together) but I think I'm at the limit of my splash screen length and the add-ins it can display.

Actually some add-ins (like GhostDoc and TestDriven.NET) don't show up on the splash screen so here's a complete list of what's in my Visual Studio:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
  • Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
  • Microsoft Visual C# 2005
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
  • Microsoft Visual J# 2005
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
  • Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005
  • Microsoft Web Application Projects 2005
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Version 2.0.50727.251
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer
  • CodeSmith 4.0
  • Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005
  • DXCore for Visual Studio 2.0
  • Enterprise Library Configuration Editor 3.0 Jan 2007 CTP
  • Extensions for Windows WF
  • Microsoft Recipe Framework Package 8.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB926601)
  • Refactor! for Visual Studio 1.0
  • ReSharper 2.5 (build #326)
  • SQL Server Analysis Services
  • SQL Server Integration Services
  • SQL Server Reporting Services
  • DevExpress Tools
  • GhostDoc
  • TestDriven.NET 2.0.1948 Professional

Anyone else have this problem? Wonder what will happen if I install more add-ons? Maybe the makers of laptops need to focus more on vertical space rather than horizontal (or I could turn it on its side, but makes it hard to type that way).

5 Comments

  • Do you have trouble with ReSharper crashing when you close VS when you've got CodeRush installed too? I'm running both now... but ReSharper is pretty unstable.

  • Or,

    A WPF application would wrap this list in a panel that scrolls once the content exceeds a specified height. I'm sure Microsoft coould have done that.

  • I'm not saying VS 2005 is a WPF app; but they could have mimick the behavior somewhat.

  • @Aaron: I'm having that exact problem. I know Mark (Miller) mentioned they both work together, and I did have it working once, but now I can't close VS without killing the process in task manager. Now it's killing me as I like features from both but can't decide on which one to get rid of.

  • If you add one more add-in:

    1. Your computer will morph into a Mac, and never work again.
    2. The shock of your computer morphing will cause you to become a Buddhist monk and disavow technology.
    3. President Bush will openly admit that he hasn't a clue what has been going on in the world for the last 6 years, and blame Chenney for everything.
    4. Microsoft will buy Apple, send Steve Jobs to Africa to do missionary work, and get those stupid Apple commericals off TV and the Internet.
    5. And all of us silly Americans will finally admit that all of you Canadians are actually kind of cool.

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