Earlier this week Jason Zander announced the availability of a new VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools release that includes a bunch of great new VS 2010 extensions that provide a bunch of cool new functionality for you to take advantage of. 

You can download and install the release for free here.  Some of the code editor improvements it provides include:

1.    Entire Line Highlighting: Makes it easier to track cursor location within the editor

2.    Entire Line Selection: Triple Clicking a line in the code editor now selects the entire line (like with MS Word)

3.    Code Block Movement: Use Alt+Up/Down Arrow now moves selected code blocks up/down in the editor

4.    Consistent Tabs vs. Spaces: Ensure consistent tab vs. space usage across your projects

5.    Colorized Parameters: It is now easier to see/identify method parameters

6.    Column Guide: You can now add vertical column guidelines to help with text alignment and sizes

7.    Align assignments: Makes it easier to line-up multiple variable assignments within your code

8.    HTML Clipboard Support: Copy/paste code from VS into an HTML buffer (useful for blogging!)

9.    Ctrl + Click Go to Definition: You can now hold down the Ctrl key and click a type to go to its definition

It also includes several tab management improvements for managing document tabs within the IDE:

1.    Show Close Button in Tab Well: Shows a close button in document well for the active tab (like VS 2008 did)

2.    Colored Tabs: You can now select the color of each document tab by project or by regex

3.    Pinned Tabs: Enables you to pin tabs to keep them always visible and available

4.    Vertical Tabs: You can now show document tabs vertically to fit more tabs than normal

5.    Remove Tabs by Usage Order: Better behavior when adding new tabs and one needs to be hidden for space reasons

6.    Sort Tabs by Project: Tabs can be sorted by project they belong to, keeping them grouped together

7.    Sort Tabs Alphabetically: Tabs can be sorted alphabetically

And last – but not least – it includes a new and improved “Add Reference” dialog:

This new Add Reference dialog caches assembly information – which means it loads within a second or two (note: the very first time it still loads assembly data – but it then caches it and makes it fast afterwards). The new Add Reference dialog also now includes searching support – making it easier to find the assembly you are looking for.

You can read more about all of the above improvements in Jason’s blog post about the release.