Do you know to use the Sitefinity Thunder Visual Studio extension?

If you are working with Sitefinity, then use Sitefinity Thunder.

Sitefinity Thunder integrates with Visual Studio and provides rich functionality to develop and deploy custom Sitefinity changes.

For example:

• allows developers to automatically deploy custom code to multiple Sitefinity projects
• accelerates custom development by connecting to Sitefinity instances inside Visual Studio. Once connected, Sitefinity Thunder supports a wide range of activities, including: modifying templates, deploying widgets, updating themes and much more
• provides easy deployment to Azure through the Deploy to Azure wizard

Figure: The Sitefinity Thunder dashboard

You can find out more at http://www.sitefinity.com/resources/tools/sitefinity-thunder.

Installing Sitefinity Thunder

It can be installed from Visual Studio | Tools | Extensions and Updates...

Figure: Add an extension to Visual Studio

Figure: Search for 'Sitefinity Thunder' in Extensions and Updates | Online

Figure: Once installation is completed, you'll be prompted to restart Visual Studio to use Sitefinity Thunder

Once Visual Studio is restarted, you'll be presented with the dashboard from top of this article.