Just today I realized that I'm using a fair number of Visual Studio 2008 addins. Visual Studio is starting to look more and more like Eclipse to me, a general work bench of tools. Which is surprising considering how painful it can be to write a Visual Studio addin in the first place.

So what addins am I using today?

• VisualSVN - Seamless and painless, I almost forget that its there.  If you use SVN and Visual Studio, do yourself a favor and fork over the $50 for it.
• ReSharper 4.0 - My refactoring/template tool of choice.  Coding without Re# is like digging a hole without a shovel.  I also use it to drive my unit tests, but TestDriven.NET is superior IMO.
• TargetProcess - This shows all my current tasks and bugs right from within Visual Studio so there's no need to jump over to my web browser to find work or update status.
• GhostDoc - I use this to bootstrap any XML documentation I might need.
• ActiveWriter - I just installed this, so we'll see how it goes.  I'm going to use this to map some entities to a new view or two.