The free Fix File Encoding extension prevents Visual Studio 2017/2015/2013/2012 from adding BOM to UTF-8 files.

Normally, when you edit a UTF-8 file in Visual Studio, it adds the byte order mark (BOM) sequence 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF to the beginning of the file. Sometimes it confuses other applications further processing the file. You can select an encoding manually (File - Advanced Save Options... or File - Save As... - Save with Encoding...), but you need to do it each time you reopen the file.

The free Text Sharp extension lets you adjust text clarity in Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 IDEs (Professional, Premium, Ultimate and LightSwitch). You can select Aliased, Grayscale or ClearType text rendering mode for Visual Studio menu, tabs and editor windows. An easy way to turn off ClearType. (Aliased rendering looks terrible when text scale is changed from default 100% in text views, so Text Sharp doesn't override VS settings when Aliased+Display is selected and zoom level is not 100%.)

It's a new feature of Visual Studio 2015 that works for C# and Visual Basic languages. The same outline is displayed when you change a method, class or namespace name.

SQL Server Data Access Components (SDAC) is a library of components that provides native connectivity to SQL Server from Delphi, C++Builder, Lazarus (and Free Pascal) for Windows (both 32-bit and 64-bit) and Mac OS X. SDAC-based applications connect to SQL Server directly through OLE DB, which is a native SQL Server interface. SDAC is designed to help programmers develop faster and cleaner SQL Server database applications.

Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, has released an update (R1) to Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo. It’s an update of Delphi 10.2 Tokyo, C++Builder 10.2 Tokyo and RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo for active Update Subscription customers. It includes 100s of platform focused enhancements, bug fixes and features.

You have reached the home of Smart Mobile Studio, a very exciting project that allows you to write ordinary Pascal in the flavour made famous by Delphi and Free Pascal, but generate feature rich, cutting edge HTML5 web applications ready for the mobile market.The fundamental difference between Smart and other rapid application development (RAD) systems is that Smart does not rely on a server. You author the project just like you would do in Delphi or Visual Studio and it’s instantly converted into high-speed jаvascript. Our philosophy is that the browser is the new operative system. The code generated by our compiler is ready to run on your iPhone or any HTML5 web-kit empowered device.

Microsoft Visual Studio is an IDE from Microsoft used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as websites, web applications, and web services. Visual Studio 2017 comes with a host of improvements and powerful tools that will help you focus more on your program to build robust applications, rather than tools itself. This video is your one stop guide to mastering the latest features of Visual Studio 2017.

Tabs Studio is a Visual Studio add-in empowering you to work comfortably with any number of open documents. Make all tabs visible in multiple rows or limit maximum number of rows and hide rarely used tabs to save screen space. Remove path from tab name and add folder or project name only when two opened tabs have the same name. Automatically group tabs with the same name but different extensions on one extended tab. Save screen space and keep relevant tabs close to each other.

Xsd2code++ allows to match an XML document to a set of C# or Vb classes and vice versa operations through serialization / deserialization. integrated directly into Microsoft Visual Studio, xsd2code++ is a true productivity tool. It allows developers to manipulate an XML document without having to know XML or how an XML document is processed. The manipulation of the XML document is done using objects previously generated from an XML schema.

The CData ADO.NET Provider for MySQL gives developers the power to easily connect .NET applications to MySQL data. The MySQL Data Provider makes this MySQL data look like SQL tables in your applications. With the CData ADO.NET Provider for MySQL developers can simply DataBind to data, just like using SQL Server.